Local government web sites in finland: A geographic and webometric analysis

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 378-386

  Holmberg, Kim ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geography; Hyperlinks; Link creation motivations; Local government; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; HYPERLINKS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; WEBOMETRICS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 66149139015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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