Thelwall, Mike (2003) "What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation."Information Research, 8(3), paper no. 151

[Eugene Garfield]

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Mike Thelwall : M.Thelwall at wlv.ac.uk


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Thelwall, Mike (2003)  "What is this link doing here? Beginning a
fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink
creation."Information Research, 8(3), paper no. 151 [Available at:
http://informationr.net/ir/8-3/paper151.html]

Title: What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of
identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation

Author(s): Thelwall M

Source: INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 8 (3): Art.
No. 151 APR 2003

Document Type: Article

Cited References: 62      Times Cited: 1

Abstract:
Analogies between Web links and citations have been used in information
retrieval to improve search engine query matching and in information science
to develop link metrics for academic and other Web spaces. The purpose of
this paper is to begin a fine-grained process of differentiating between
creation motivations for links in academic Web sites and citations in
journals on the basis that they are very different phenomena. A sample of
100 random inter-site links to UK university home pages was used as a
starting point for a qualitative exploration and four new types of
motivation are postulated. The term 'ownership' is coined for links
acknowledging authorship or co-authorship of are source, 'social' for links
with a primarily social reinforcement role, 'general navigational' for those
with a general information navigation function and 'gratuitous' for those
that serve no communication function at all. It is argued that all of these
form a role unique to the Web, albeit in varying degrees. Compared to citer
motivations they are relatively trivial and instead of being primarily
socio-cognitive, none are cognitive and the gratuitous are not even social.

Addresses: Thelwall M (reprint author), Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp &
Informat Technol, Wolverhampton, W Midlands WV1 1EQ England
Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton, W Midlands
WV1 1EQ England

Publisher: UNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIV SHEFFIELD, WESTERN
BANK, SHEFFIELD S10 2TN, S YORKS, ENGLAND

IDS Number: 726QQ
ISSN: 1368-1613

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