How much information do search engines disclose on the links to a web page? A longitudinal case study of the 'cybermetrics' home page

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 455-466

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES;

CYBERMETRICS; ELECTRONIC JOURNAL; HOME PAGE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GOOGLE; WEB IMPACT FACTOR;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0036944460     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150202800602     Document Type: Article

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