The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Scholarly communication and the continuum of electronic publishing
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Accessibility of information on the Web
intelligence
Motivation for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: a qualitative study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Web-based analyses of e-journal impact: approaches, problems, and issues
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Statistical methods for the information professional
Statistical methods for the information professional
Extracting macroscopic information from Web links
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Three target document range metrics for university web sites
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use
Social Science Computer Review
Bibliographic and Web citations: what is the difference?
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
New measurements for search engine evaluation proposed and tested
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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
Webometrics: an introduction to the special issue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Webometrics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Webometrics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualizing linguistic and cultural differences using Web co-link data: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy, and denial of service
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Google Scholar citations and Google Web-URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
UK academic web links and collaboration - an exploratory study
Journal of Information Science
Investigation of the accuracy of search engine hit counts
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Information Science
A path-based approach for web page retrieval
World Wide Web
A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Historical Network Analysis of the Web
Social Science Computer Review
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Web links have been studied by information scientists for at least six years but it is only in the past two that clear evidence has emerged to show that counts of links to scholarly Web spaces (universities and departments) can correlate significantly with research measures, giving some credence to their use for the investigation of scholarly communication. This paper reports on a study to investigate the factors that influence the creation of links to journal Web sites. An empirical approach is used: collecting data and testing for significant patterns. The specific questions addressed are whether site age and site content are inducers of links to a journal's Web site as measured by the ratio of link counts to Journal Impact Factors, two variables previously discovered to be related. A new methodology for data collection is also introduced that uses the Internet Archive to obtain an earliest known creation date for Web sites. The results show that both site age and site content are significant factors for the disciplines studied: library and information science, and law. Comparisons between the two fields also show disciplinary differences in Web site characteristics. Scholars and publishers should be particularly aware that richer content on a journal's Web site tends to generate links and thus the traffic to the site.