Structural changes in the 2003-2009 global hyperlink network

Global Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 522-542

  Park, Han Woo ^a   Barnett, George A ^b   Chung, Chung Joo ^c  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

GLOBAL HYPERLINK; INTERNET; NETWORK ANALYSIS; WEBOMETRICS; WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HYPERLINK NETWORKS; HYPERLINKS; LATIN AMERICA; NETWORK LINKING; REGIONAL CLUSTERS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TOP LEVEL DOMAINS; WEBOMETRICS; WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM THEORY; USER INTERFACES;

NETWORK CODING;

CENTRALIZATION; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NETWORK DESIGN; RESEARCH WORK; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

AFRICA; ASIA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 80052327090     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2011.00336.x     Document Type: Review

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