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
- 2009 follow-up book:
Introduction to Webometrics
Part I: Theory
3. The Theoretical Perspective for Link Counting
REFERENCES WITH LINKS
Brooks, T. (2004). The nature of meaning in the age of Google. Information Research 9(3), paper 180.
Google (2004). Our search: Google technology.
Thelwall, M. (2003a). A free database of university Web links: Data collection issues. Cybermetrics, 6(1).
Additional key reference
Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
