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Linking patterns in European Union countries: geographical maps of the European academic web space

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José Luis Ortega,

Isidro F. AguilloAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Information Science, Volume 34, Issue 5

Pages 705 - 714

https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551507086990

Published: 01 October 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This national level study intends to describe the existing relationships between the number of web pages, inlinks to and outlinks from Europe and national or internal links in the European Higher Education Area through a sample of 535 European universities' web domains. Several geographical maps are introduced to summarize and visualize this statistical information. The main result shows that larger countries, in number of web pages, link less to the remaining European countries, while the smaller ones are characterized by their link profusion to the European zone. The great presence of national links in large and medium size countries confirms that the European academic web space is shaped by the aggregation of national sub-networks, while the similar low presence in small countries suggests that these are linked to another large country.

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Index Terms

Linking patterns in European Union countries: geographical maps of the European academic web space
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
  2. Enterprise computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information storage systems

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Barnett GPark HJiang KTang CAguillo I(2014)A multi-level network analysis of web-citations among the world's universitiesScientometrics10.1007/s11192-013-1070-099:1(5-26)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2014
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Ortega JAguillo I(2009)Mapping world-class universities on the webInformation Processing and Management: an International Journal10.1016/j.ipm.2008.10.00145:2(272-279)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2009
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