An exploratory study on substantive co-link analysis: A modification to total co-link analysis.
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| Title: | An exploratory study on substantive co-link analysis: A modification to total co-link analysis. |
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| Authors: | Junping Qiu1, Yejun Li1, Jiang Li1, Quane Ren1 |
| Source: | Scientometrics. Aug2008, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p327-341. 15p. |
| Subjects: | Data mining, Blogs, Hyperlinks, Digital resources in library science, Information science -- Computer network resources |
| Abstract: | Since the term âco-linkâ was put forward, many scholars have done exploratory investigations to prove the applicability and validity of co-link analysis used in mapping internet structure and mining relationships among internet colonies. All of these studies are based on the whole links in the web called âtotal co-link analysisâ. However, there are both substantive and non-substantive links in the web, and the number of the latter outweights that of the former, which makes the preconditions of total co-link analysis untenable. In this paper, we present âsubstantive co-link analysisâ, and believe it is more sound and valid than âtotal co-link analysisâ. Then exploratory investigations on both total and substantive co-link analysis are carried out with the sample of 20 academic blogs on Library and Information Science, the results of which testify our assumption that âsubstantive co-link analysisâ is more efficient and reasonable than âtotal co-link analysisâ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Engineering Source |
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