Why are websites co-linked? The case of Canadian universities

被引：30

作者：

Vaughan, Liwen ^{[1
]}

Kipp, Margaret E. I. ^{[1
]}

Gao, Yijun ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada

来源：

SCIENTOMETRICS | 2007年 / 72卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1007/s11192-007-1707-y

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

This study examined why Websites were co-linked using Canadian university Websites as the test set. Pages that co-linked to these university Websites were located using Yahoo!. A random sample of 859 co-linking pages (the page that initiated the co-link) was retrieved and the contents of the page, as well as the context of the link, were manually examined to record the following variables: language, country, type of Website, and the reasons for co-linking. The study found that in over 94% of cases, the two co-linked universities were related academically; many of these cases (38%) showed a relationship specifically in teaching or research. This confirms results, from previous quantitative studies, that Web co-links can be a measure of the similarity or relatedness of sites being co-linked and that Web co-link analysis can thus be used to study relationships among linked Websites.

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