Link analysis : an information science approach / Mike Thelwall.
The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links between web sites can be used in information science and social science research as a valuable source of evidence about online phenomena, and about online component...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
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2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Library and information science (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Web crawlers and search engines
- The yheoretical perspective for link vounting
- Interpreting link vounts: random samples and correlations
- Link structures in the web graph
- The content structure of the web
- Universities: link types
- Universities: link models
- Universities: international links
- Departments and subjects
- Journals and articles
- Search engines and web design
- A health check for Spanish universities
- Personal web pages linking to universities
- Academic networks
- Using commercial search engines and the Internet Archive
- Personal crawlers
- Data cleansing
- Online university link databases
- Embedded link analysis methodologies
- Social network analysis
- Network visualizations
- Academic link indicators
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Index.