Examining the robustness of web co-link analysis

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 956-972

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Tang, Juan ^b   Du, Jian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

China; Intelligence; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS COMPETITION; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE; CHINESE INDUSTRY; CHINESE LANGUAGE; CHINESE WEB; DATA COLLECTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL COMPANY; LINK ANALYSIS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; TIME PERIODS; WEB PAGE;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPETITION; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74549181018     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520911001936     Document Type: Article

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