Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Methods for measuring search engine performance over time
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Do the Web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly more online impact?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: the case of Canadian universities
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Comparative analysis of webometric measurements in thematic environments: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Comparing rankings of search results on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
Visualizing linguistic and cultural differences using Web co-link data: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualization of the Nordic academic web: Link analysis using social network tools
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Linking patterns in European Union countries: geographical maps of the European academic web space
Journal of Information Science
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Exploring the web visibility of world-class universities
Scientometrics
An evolutionary factor analysis computation for mining website structures
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Web data as academic and business quality estimates: A comparison of three data sources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web link-based relationships among top European universities
Journal of Information Science
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A visual display of the most important universities in the world is the aim of this paper. It shows the topological characteristics and describes the web relationships among universities of different countries and continents. The first 1000 higher education institutions from the Ranking Web of World Universities were selected and their link relationships were obtained from Yahoo! Search. Network graphs and geographical maps were built from the search engine data. Social network analysis techniques were used to analyse and describe the structural properties of the whole of the network and its nodes. The results show that the world-class university network is constituted from national sub-networks that merge in a central core where the principal universities of each country pull their networks toward international link relationships. The United States dominates the world network, and within Europe the British and the German sub-networks stand out.