Web data as academic and business quality estimates: A comparison of three data sources

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1960-1972

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Yang, Rongbin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

link analysis; measurement; webometrics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CITATION DATA; DATA SOURCE; HYPERLINKS; INLINKS; LINK ANALYSIS; WEB DATA; WEBOMETRICS;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MEASUREMENTS; WEBSITES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84866488982     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22659     Document Type: Article

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