Description for Link Analysis
Hardcover. This 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. Editor(s): Thelwall, Mike. Series: Library and Information Science Series. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBC; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 many reveal 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 ... Read more
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 many reveal 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Library and Information Science Series
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780120885534
SKU
V9780120885534
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
Reviews for Link Analysis
"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