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Peer reviewedThelwall, Mike; Wilkinson, David – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Explains how the Web can be modeled as a mathematical graph and analyzes the graph structures of three national university publicly indexable Web sites from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Topics include commercial search engines and academic Web link research; method-analysis environment and data sets; and power laws. (LRW)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphs, Higher Education, Search Engines
Tang, Rong; Thelwall, Mike – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Compares links between 76 Chinese university Web sites with ranks obtained from the NetBig lists, using a specialized Web crawler to collect data. Provides a background to the higher education system in mainland China, describes the NetBig ranking scheme, and explains Web site crawling problems encountered. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Search Engines
