New book about webometric methods

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach
by Mike Thelwall

The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many
others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links
between web sites can be used in information science and social science
research as a valuable source of evidence about online phenomena, and
about online components of offline phenomena. Given a set of websites,
the links between them many reveal interesting patterns of connectedness
that could reflect issues of underlying human communication or
information value. Link analysis is therefore a valuable tool for
information science and social science researchers investigating the
web, or other phenomena with an offline component. This book provides
methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students
through a research project, in addition to reviewing a considerable body
of previous work.

250 pages, Academic Press (December 29, 2004). ISBN: 0120885530

About $69.95

Website of the book (extensive draft)
http://linkanalysis.wlv.ac.uk

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Isidro F. Aguillo
isidro at cindoc.csic.es
Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313

Laboratorio de Internet. CINDOC-CSIC
Joaquin Costa, 22
28002 Madrid. SPAIN

http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics
http://www.webindicators.org
http://www.eicstes.org
http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es
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