Visualization of the Chinese academic web based on social network analysis

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-143

  Yang, B ^a,b   Liu, Zhihui ^a,b   Meloche, Joseph A ^c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic websites; Link analysis; Link motivation; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

BETWEENNESS; COMPREHENSIVE STRENGTH; LINK ANALYSIS; LINK RELATIONSHIPS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SUB-NETWORK; WEB BASED;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950289511     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551509353373     Document Type: Article

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