Following the leader? Network models of “world-class” universities on Twitter

Higher Education

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 253-268

  Shields, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERGM; Higher education; Rankings; Social media; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957442422     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-015-9900-z     Document Type: Article

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