Exploring the web visibility of world-class universities

Scientometrics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201-218

  Lee, Moosung ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Web visibility; Webometrics; World university rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655170508     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0515-6     Document Type: Article

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