A multi-level network analysis of web-citations among the world's universities

Scientometrics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-26

  Barnett, George A ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b   Jiang, Ke ^a   Tang, Chuan ^c   Aguillo, Isidro F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hyperlink network analysis; Informetrics; International networks; Social network analysis; Webometrics; World university ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897616166     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1070-0     Document Type: Article

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