Site co-link analysis applied to small networks: a new methodological approach

Abstract

The method of co-link was proposed in 1996 and since then it has been applied in many Webometric studies. Its definition refers to ''page co-link analysis'', as links are provided by URLs or pages. This paper presents a new methodological approach, a ''site co-link analysis'', to investigate relations in small networks. The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation institutes were used as a case study. The results indicate that the number of co-links provided by sites led to an increase of 133% in the sample analyzed. In a cluster analysis, three clusters were formed mainly for thematic reasons and four institutes remained isolated.

Exploring the relationships between media and political parties through web hyperlink analysis: The case of Spain

“…On the other hand, co‐links do not have this time issue as the two links exist on the same page. Co‐link data have been used successfully to investigate different subjects, such as cultural and linguistic factors (Gouveia & Kurtenbach, ), universities (Ortega & Aguillo, ; Lang, Gouveia, & Leta, ), e‐science (Park, ), and business (Vaughan & You, ; Vaughan & Romero‐Frías, ). Building on these previous studies, this research examined patterns of web linking to the websites of Spain's main national media and political parties to discover whether web data reflect the political orientation of media, as well as whether the data can provide insight into the relationship between the media and political parties.…”

Altmetria: métricas de produção científica para além das citações │ Altmetrics: scientific production metrics beyond citations

“…O entendimento de que se tratava de métricas que poderiam ter outro tipo de uso existia, mas não se consolidou naquele momento como um campo de estudo em virtude do foco central da webometria estar voltado para as análises de diversos tipos de instituições e suas relações na web (THELWALL; SMITH, 2002;VAUGHAN et al, 2007;YOU, 2008;HOLMBERG;KURTENBACH, 2009;LANG et al, 2009 2012), dentre outros conjuntos propostos, tendo como inspiração o conceito do Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) (http://www.arwu.org/), em que uma fórmula consolida diferentes rankings com pesos distintos. São consolidados rankings de presença (número de páginas e demais conteúdos disponibilizados), de impacto (número de links externos recebidos), acesso aberto (número de referências no Google Scholar a documentos PDF, DOC, DOCX e PPT disponíveis nos últimos cinco anos) e excelência (número de artigos publicados que se situam entre os 10% mais citados no mundo).…”

Power‐law link strength distribution in paper cocitation networks

“…Moreover, their link strengths usually appear as natural numbers. For example, the number of collaborations in collaboration networks (Ding, ), the amount of hyperlinks in website link networks (Lang, Gouveia, & Leta, ), the frequency of co‐occurrence in coword networks (Jacobs, ), the citations in author citation networks (Takeda & Kajikawa, ; Ding, ), and the cocitations in cocitation networks (Ding, Yan, Frazho, & Caverlee, ; Wang, Zhang, & Xu, ). Since a weighted information network has such features, its links between nodes can reflect the definite difference in connection strength.…”