Link Analysis by Mike Thelwall

Link Analysis 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. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. It features a strong online component which includes software and instructions to allow complete link analyses. The case studies include academic, business and commercial search engine applications. Practical chapters describe a range of related methods, software and data sources.

It gives a readable overview of the results achieved so far and of research trends based on the information science approach to link analysisI highly recommend the book - personally I enjoyed reading it very much. - Judit Bar-Ilan, Information Processing and Management Vol 42, Issue 1, 2005

Thelwall, Mike: - Mike Thelwall, Professor of Data Science, leads the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has developed free software and methods for social media sentiment analysis and for systematically gathering and analyzing web and social web data. He is particularly interested in social science applications of web data. His program SentiStrength is sold commercially, given free to academics, and used in several academic social media analysis toolkits. He has co-authored hundreds of refereed journal articles and has written three books. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and sits on four other editorial boards.

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ISBN 13	9780120885534
ISBN 10	0120885530
Title	Link Analysis
Author	Mike Thelwall
Series	Library And Information Science
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published	2004-12-14
Number of pages	282
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