Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Information Science
- Vol. 30 (5) , 436-447
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551504046736
Abstract
Hyperlinks between academic web sites, like citations, can potentially be used to map disciplinary structures and identify evidence of connections between disciplines. In this paper we classified a sample of links originating in three different disciplines: maths, physics and sociology. Links within a discipline were found to be different in character to links between pages in different disciplines. There were also disciplinary differences in both types of link. As a consequence, we argue that interpretations of web science maps covering multiple disciplines will need to be sensitive to the contexts of the links mapped.Keywords
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