Types and levels of collaboration in interdisciplinary research in the sciences
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Hotel cosmopolitan: a bibliometric study of collaboration at some European universities
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on science and technology indicators
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
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Extracting macroscopic information from Web links
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Scholarly use of the web: what are the key inducers of links to journal web sites?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
What do we know about links and linking? A framework for studying links in academic environments
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Estimation of friendship and hierarchy from conversation records
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Web link-based relationships among top European universities
Journal of Information Science
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Universities work in collaboration with many other organizations, and these collaborations have important consequences for the national economy. The ability to measure these collaborations in a quick, timely fashion in comparison with similar organizations would enable institutions to improve collaborative efforts. This article investigates the potential of web links to act as an indicator of collaboration through a detailed classification of 2600 links from universities to government, commercial and other domains. Whilst there are significant differences in the proportion of web links that reflect collaboration, depending on the source page owner and the target page top-level domain, the majority of web links on a university web page do not reflect a collaboration between the web page owner and the target web page owner. However, there are still a significant number of links reflecting collaborative relationships which can provide a rich source of information. A potential future area of investigation is into the number of links between web sites.