The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Trawling the Web for emerging cyber-communities
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Acrophile: an automated acronym extractor and server
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Motivation for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: a qualitative study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Small-world linkage and co-linkage
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web Theory
Hyperlink Analysis for the Web
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A large-scale study of the evolution of web pages
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Linked
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web Dynamics
Information diffusion through blogspace
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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
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Credit scoring algorithm based on link analysis ranking with support vector machine
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IBM research division cloud computing initiative
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Journal of Information Science
A Random Digit Search (RDS) Method for Sampling of Blogs and Other User-Generated Content
Social Science Computer Review
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Competitivity groups on social network sites
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An overview of social network analysis
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Link analysis in various forms is now an established technique in many different subjects, reflecting the perceived importance of links and of the Web. A critical but very difficult issue is how to interpret the results of social science link analyses. It is argued that the dynamic nature of the Web, its lack of quality control, and the online proliferation of copying and imitation mean that methodologies operating within a highly positivist, quantitative framework are ineffective. Conversely, the sheer variety of the Web makes application of qualitative methodologies and pure reason very problematic to large-scale studies. Methodology triangulation is consequently advocated, in combination with a warning that the Web is incapable of giving definitive answers to large-scale link analysis research questions concerning social factors underlying link creation. Finally, it is claimed that although theoretical frameworks are appropriate for guiding research, a Theory of Link Analysis is not possible. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.