Can Google's PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-217

  Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Effectiveness; Information retrieval; Internet; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037244993     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310463491     Document Type: Article

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