Longitudinal trends in academic web links

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-14

  Payne, Nigel ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic web space; Inlinks; Longitudinal; Outlinks; Web links

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STABILITY CRITERIA; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

ACADEMIC WEB SPACES; INLINKS; OUTLINKS; WEB LINKS; WEBOMETRICS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 38149134379     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507079417     Document Type: Article

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