
doi: 10.5772/38184
Without a doubt, the Internet has revolutionized the way we access information and share our ideas via tools such as Facebook, twitter, email, forums, blogs and instant messaging. The Internet is also an excellent distribution system for digital media. It is inexpensive, eliminates warehousing and delivery, and is almost instantaneous. Together with the advances of compression techniques such as JPEG, MP3 and MPEG; the Internet has become even faster, easier and more cost effective to distribute digital media such as audio, video, images and documents over the World Wide Web.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 2 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
