Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 340-351

  Wilkinson, David ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a   Xuemei, L I ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Content analysis; Hyperlinks; Scholarly communication; Web searching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041573297     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439303253980     Document Type: Review

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