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An Overview of Link Analysis Techniques for Academic Web
Sites
Mike Thelwall, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Funded by the European Union WISER Project - (Web indicators for scientific, technological and innovation research, www.webindicators.org)
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Contents
1. Data collection
2. Data processing
3. Analysis
4. Results
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Why analyse university link structures? Analogies with citation studies Ensure that the Web is efficiently used for research
communication Identify trends in informal scholarly communication Suggest improvements in search tools Exploratory research: the Web is important and a
valid object for scientific study
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Methodologies: Data collection Web crawler Google
Does not support adequate level of Boolean querying AllTheWeb advanced queries AltaVista advanced querieshost:wlv.ac.uk AND link:edu.cn
(results of this query are on the next page…)
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host:wlv.ac.uk AND link:edu.cn
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YUNNAN AGRICULTURALUNIVERSITY
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Shanghai Universitywww.shu.edu.cn
Dalian University of Foreign Languageswww.dlufl.edu.cn
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Methodologies: Data processing 1 Link counts to target universities
Inter-site links only Colink counts
B and C are colinked Couplings
D and E are coupledB C
A D E
F
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Methodologies: Data processing 2 Alternative Document Models
E.g. count links between domains (ignoring multiple links) instead of pages
P1P2P3
P4P5P6
www.wlv.ac.uk www.albany.edu
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Methodologies: Data analysis Statistical techniques for evaluating results
Correlation with known research performance measures
Factor analysis, Multi-Dimensional Scaling, Cluster analysis for patterns
Simple graphical techniques Techniques from Communication
Networks research / Geography
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Results section 1 – Patterns of links between university Web sites
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Results 1: Links associate with research Counts of links to universities within a
country can correlate significantly with measures of research productivity
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Links to UK universities counted by domain
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Results 2: Links between universities in a country can be related to geography
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Results 3: Universities cluster by geographic region
This is clearest for Scotland but also for other groupings, including Manchester-based universities
Coherent clusters are difficult to extract because of overlapping trends
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A pathfinder networkof UK universityinterlinkingwith geographicclusters indicated
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Results section 2: Links and subject areas
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Results 4: Links to departments associate with research In the US, links to chemistry and psychology
departments from other departments associate with total research impact
No evidence of a significant geographic trend Disciplinary differences in the extent of
interlinking: history Web use is very low
{Research with Rong Tang}
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Results 5: Links for precision, colinks and couplings for recall For the UK academic Web, about 42% of
domains connected by links alone are similar, and about 43% connected by links, colinks and couplings
But over 100 times more domains are colinked or coupled than are directly linked
Colinks and couplings can help the task of finding additional subject-based pages
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Results 6: Most links are only loosely related to research
A random sample of links between UK university sites revealed over 90% had some connection with scholarly activity, including teaching and research.
Less than 1% were equivalent to citations
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Results section 3: International academic links
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Results 7: Linguistic factors in EU communication
English the dominant language for Web sites in the Western EU
In a typical country, 50% of pages are in the national language(s) and 50% in English
Non-English speaking extensively interlink in English
{Research with Rong Tang}
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Results 8: Can map patterns of international communicationCounts of links between Asia-Pacific universities are represented by arrow thickness.
{Research with Alastair Smith, VUW, NZ}
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The future Results of research leading into:
Improved Web-related policy making Improved Web information retrieval
algorithms Improved understanding of informal
scholarly communication on the Web More effective use of the Web by scholars, e.g.
via PhD training