Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping
Harries, Gareth Wilkinson, David Price, Liz Fairclough, Ruth Thelwall, Mike
Harries, Gareth
Wilkinson, David
Price, Liz
Fairclough, Ruth
Thelwall, Mike
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2004
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Hyperlinks between academic web sites, like citations, can potentially be used to map disciplinary structures and identify evidence of connections between disciplines. In this paper we classified a sample of links originating in three different disciplines: maths, physics and sociology. Links within a discipline were found to be different in character to links between pages in different disciplines. There were also disciplinary differences in both types of link. As a consequence, we argue that interpretations of web science maps covering multiple disciplines will need to be sensitive to the contexts of the links mapped.
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Journal of Information Science, 30(5): 436-447
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