How did university departments interweave the Web: A study of connectivity and underlying factors

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-373

  Chen, Chaomei ^a   Newman, Julian ^b   Newman, Rhona ^c   Rada, Roy ^d  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity analysis; Content analysis; Hypertext references; Scientific networks; WWW

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; HYPERTEXT REFERENCES;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032208092     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(97)00034-9     Document Type: Article

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