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 III: Academic Links
7. Universities: Link Types
REFERENCES WITH LINKS
Knudsen, I., Haug, G. & Kirstein, J. (1999). Trends in learning structures in Higher Education.
Middleton, I., McConnell, M. & Davidson, G. (1999). Presenting a model for the structure and content of a university World Wide Web site, Journal of Information Science, 25(3), 219-227.
Thelwall, M. (2003a). What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation, Information Research, 8(3), paper no. 151.
