WebCite was an on-demand archive site, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by taking snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger or a scholar cited or quoted from it. The preservation service enabled verifiability of claims supported by the cited sources even when the original web pages are being revised, removed, or disappear for other reasons, an effect known as link rot. WebCite allowed for preservation of all types of web content, including HTML web pages, PDF files, style sheets, JavaScript and digital images. It also archived metadata about the collected resources such as access time, MIME type, and content length. More information...
According to PR-model, webcitation.org is ranked 24th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 2nd in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before allmusic.com and after twitter.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
