Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, and reviewing a considerable body of previous work. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. Case studies include academic, business and commercial search engine applications.
Trade Review"It gives a readable overview of the results achieved so far and of research trends based on the information science approach to link analysis. I highly recommend the book - personally I enjoyed reading it very much." - Judit Bar-Ilan, Information Processing and Management Vol 42, Issue 1, 2005
Table of ContentsPart I: Theory. Introduction. Web Crawlers and Search Engines. The Theoretical Perspective for Link Counting. Interpreting link counts: 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. Business web sites. Using commercial search engines and the Internet Archive. Personal crawlers. Data cleansing. Online university link databases. Embedded link analysis. Social Network Analysis. Network visualizations. Academic link indicators. Summary. Glossary.
