Introduction to webometrics quantitative Web research for the social sciences
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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]San Rafael, Calif.[
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers
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c2009
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1 online resource )ix, 115 p.( : ill. )some col.(
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Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ;#4.
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Title from PDF t.p. )viewed Apr. 29, 2009(
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 107-114(
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- New problems: web-based phenomena -- Old problems: offline phenomena reflected online -- History and definition -- Book overview -- Web impact assessment -- Web impact assessment via web mentions -- Bespoke web citation indexes -- Content analysis -- Category choices -- Sampling methods -- Example -- Validity -- URL analysis of the spread of results -- Web impact reports -- Web citation analysis, an information science application -- Advanced web impact studies -- Summary -- Link analysis -- Background: link counts as a type of information -- Types of webometric link analysis -- Link impact assessments -- Interpreting the results -- Alternative link counting methods -- Case study: links to ZigZagMag.com -- Content analysis of links -- Link relationship mapping -- Case studies -- Colink relationship mapping -- Link impact reports -- Large-scale link analysis with multiple site groups -- Link differences between sectors, an information science application -- Summary -- Blog searching -- Blog search engines -- Date-specific searches -- Trend detection -- Checking trend detection results -- Limitations of blog data -- Advanced blog analysis techniques -- Summary -- Automatic search engine searches: LexiURL searcher -- Introduction to LexiURL searcher -- LexiURL searcher web impact reports -- Web impact reports, classic interface example -- LexiURL searcher link impact reports -- Link impact reports, classic interface example -- LexiURL searcher for network diagrams -- Rearranging, saving, and printing network diagrams -- Network diagram, classic interface example -- Colink network diagrams -- LexiURL searcher additional features -- Web crawling: SocSciBot -- Web crawlers -- Overview of SocSciBot -- Network diagrams of sets of web sites with SocSciBot -- Other uses for web crawls -- Search engines and data reliability -- Search engine architecture -- Duplicate and near-duplicate elimination -- Comparing different search engines -- Research into search engine results -- Modeling the web's link structure -- Tracking user actions online -- Single-site web analytics and log file analysis -- Multiple-site web analytics -- Search engine log file analysis -- Advanced techniques -- Query splitting -- Virtual memetics -- Web issue analysis -- Data mining social network sites -- Social network analysis and small worlds -- Folksonomy tagging -- API programming and mashups -- Summary and future directions -- Glossary -- References
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، Webometrics
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، Electronic books
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
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005
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72
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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ZA4228
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T538
2009eb
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AU
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Michael Thelwall
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SE Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ;