Conceptualizing documentation on the Web: An evaluation of different heuristic-based models for counting links between university web sites

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 995-1005

  Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; EDUCATION; HTML; HTTP; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES;

HEURISTIC-BASED MODELS; UNIVERSITY WEB SITES; WEB DOCUMENT;

WEBSITES;

EID: 0036789141     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10135     Document Type: Article

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