Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university Web site interlinking

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 563-574

  Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internet; Knowledge workers; United Kingdom; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036384744     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410210441586     Document Type: Article

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