Wilkinson D, Harries G, Thelwall M, Price L "Motivations for academic web site interlinking: evidence for the Web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly ommunication" JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 29 (1): 49-56 2003

[Eugene Garfield]

David Wilkinson : D.Wilkinson at wlv.ac.uk


TITLE      Motivations for academic web site interlinking: evidence for the
          Web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly
          ommunication

AUTHOR     Wilkinson D, Harries G, Thelwall M, Price L

JOURNAL    JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 29 (1): 49-56 2003

Document type: Article     Language: English     Cited References: 49
Times Cited: 1

Abstract:
The need to understand authors' motivations for creating links between
university web sites is addressed by a survey of a random collection of 414
such links from the ac.uk domain. A classification-scheme was created and
applied to this collection. Obtaining inter-classifier agreement as to the
single main link creation cause was very difficult because of multiple
potential. motivations and the fluidity of genre on the Web. Nevertheless,
it was clear that, whilst the vast majority, over 90%, was created for
broadly scholarly reasons, only two Were equivalent to journal citations. It
is concluded that academic web link metrics will be dominated by a range of
informal types of scholarly communication. Since formal communication can be
extensively studied through citation analysis, this provides an exciting new
window through which to investigate a facet of a previously obscured type of
communication activity.

KeyWords Plus:
IMPACT-FACTORS, CRAWLER, BIBLIOMETRICS, DOCUMENTATION, SCIENCE, LINKS

Addresses:
Wilkinson D, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wulfruna St,
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England
Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB,
England

Publisher:
BOWKER-SAUR, E GRINSTEAD

IDS Number:
653AY

ISSN:
0165-5515

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