Browsing the underdeveloped web: An experiment on the arabic medical web directory

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 595-607

  Chung, Wingyan ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH QUALITIES; INFORMATION QUALITIES; MEDICAL DOMAINS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; USER SATISFACTIONS; WEB DIRECTORIES; WEB SITES;

BENCHMARKING; EXPERIMENTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 62549152251     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21005     Document Type: Article

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