Link analysis An information science approach

• Main Author: Thelwall, Mike
• Format: eBook Book Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam u.a Elsevier Academic Press 2004; Emerald Group Publishing Limited; Elsevier; Emerald Publishing Limited; Emerald; Academic Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Library and information science
• Subjects: Analyse; Forschung; Hochschule; Informationswissenschaft; Internet; Internet guides & online services; Internet research; Internet searching; Kooperation; Media studies; Social Aspects; Social Science; Sociology; Struktur; Technology & Engineering; Web databases; Web librarianship; Website; Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
• ISBN: 9780120885534; 0120885530; 9781849507905; 1849507902
• ISSN: 1876-0562
• DOI: 10.1108/S1876-0562(2004)04

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 components of offline phenomena. Given a set of websites, the links between them reveal many interesting patterns of connectedness that could reflect issues of underlying human communication or information value. Link analysis is therefore a valuable tool for information science and social science researchers investigating the web, or other phenomena with an offline component. This book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, in addition to reviewing a considerable body of previous work. (DIPF/Orig.).