Labeled, typed links as cues when reading hypertext documents
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Inferring Web communities from link topology
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems: links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Motivation for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: a qualitative study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Extracting macroscopic information from Web links
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Toward a basic framework for webometrics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Webometrics
What do we know about links and linking? A framework for studying links in academic environments
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
How and why scholars cite on Twitter
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
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Mention indicators have frequently been used in Webometric studies because they provide a powerful tool for determining the degree of visibility and impact of web resources. Among mention indicators, hypertextual links were a central part of many studies until Yahoo! discontinued the `linkdomain' command in 2011. Selective links constitute a variant of external links where both the source and target of the link can be selected. This paper intends to study the influence of social platforms (measured through the number of selective external links) on academic environments, in order to ascertain both the percentage that they constitute and whether some of them can be used as substitutes of total external links. For this purpose, 141 URLs belonging to 76 Spanish universities were compiled in 2010 (before Yahoo! stopped their link services), and the number of links from 13 selected social platforms to these universities were calculated. Results confirm a good correlation between total external links and links that come from social platforms, with the exception of some applications (such as Digg and Technorati). For those universities with a higher number of total external links, the high correlation is only maintained on Delicious and Wikipedia, which can be utilized as substitutes of total external links in the context analyzed. Notwithstanding, the global percentage of links from social platforms constitute only a small fraction of total links, although a positive trend is detected, especially in services such as Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook.