The paper is not very technical, generalizing and in the review style. Perhaps this also made it more accessible.

The paper deals with informetrics of the new world internet: in itself it does not contain many new results. Classical informetrics deals with the mathematics and statistics of libraries and publications (incl. authors and citations). The extension to informetrics is new and the methodology is to look for parallellisms between the informetrics of the internet and the classical informetrics (growth, obsolescence, Lotka's law, Zipf's law, impact factor, recall and precision, ...).

The circumstance that led me to this research is the fact that I am a university librarian and that more and more data (on library activities) are gathered in an electronic way, usually through the internet. This way I could see the "new" regularities which were confirmed by some other studies mentioned in the reference list.