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A microscopic link analysis of academic institutions within a country — the case of Israel

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Links analysis proved to be very fruitful on the Web. Google's very successful ranking algorithm is based on link analysis. There are only a few studies that analyzed links qualitatively, most studies are quantitative. Our purpose was to characterize these links in order to gain a better understanding why links are created. We limited the study to the academic environment, and as a specific case we chose to characterize the interlinkage between the eight Israeli universities.

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  1. School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Room 208, Levy Building, Givat Ram, P. O. Box 1255, Jerusalem, 90904, Israel

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Bar-Ilan, J. A microscopic link analysis of academic institutions within a country — the case of Israel. Scientometrics 59, 391–403 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SCIE.0000018540.33706.c1

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