Link analysis home page Part I: Theory 1. Introduction 2. Crawlers and search engines 3. Theoretical perspectives 4. Sampling & correlations Part II: Web structure 5. Link structures in the web graph 6. Content structure of the web Part III: Academic links 7. Universities – link types 8. Universities - link models 9. Universities - international 10. Departments and disciplines 11. Journals and articles Part IV: Applications 12. Site design & search engines 13. Health check for universities 14. Personal home pages 15. Academic network analysis 16. Business web sites Part V: Tools and techniques 17. Search engines & Archive 18. Personal crawlers 19. Data cleansing 20. Cybermetrics database 21. Embedded link analysis 22. Social network analysis 23. Network visualisation 24. Academic web indicators Part VI: Summary 25. Summary & future directions 26. Glossary Online Appendix Ethical issues for crawlers
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- 2009 follow-up book: Introduction to Webometrics
Mike Thelwall: Academic Press, 2004
In this web site: updated URLs; instructions for link analysis and related techniques (mostly parts IV and V); links to resources and additional information; extended glossary.