An Exploratory Study on the Analysis of Academic Websites Co-Citation

Author

Yang, Siluo ; Xiong, Zunyan

Author_Institution

Public Manage. Sch., Xiangtan Univ., Xiangtan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Web site co-citation is the URL of two Web sites cited in a paper. This is an exploring study to apply the co-citation in the analysis of academic Web sites, where Chinese top 100 universities´ Web sites are taken as an example in the empirical analysis. Through multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) analysis and Pajek tool, the relationships among Web sites are evaluated and visualized. The experimental results show that co-citation approach, despite some drawbacks, is efficient to discover the relatedness among Web sites. Furthermore, it possesses unique advantages and good development prospects.

Keywords

Web sites; academic libraries; citation analysis; computer aided instruction; Chinese university; MDS; Pajek tool; academic Web sites co-citation analysis; exploratory study; information science; library science; multidimensional scaling analysis; Citation analysis; Frequency conversion; Information resources; Internet; Libraries; Matrix converters; Statistical analysis; Uniform resource locators; Visualization; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5303329

Filename

5303329