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Science Communication, Vol. 27, No. 4, 540-564 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1075547006288037

Comparing Academic Hyperlink Structures with Journal Publishing in Korea

A Social Network Analysis

Hyo Kim

Ajou University

Han Woo Park

Yeungnam University, hanpark{at}ynu.ac.kr,parkhanwoo@hotmail.com

Mike Thelwall

University of Wolverhampton

This article describes the structure of academic hyperlinks embedded in universities’ Web sites hosted in Korea and examines the relationship between the structure of this hyperlink network and the journal publishing of universities. Studying the two phenomena together helps in understanding the changing process of communication created and sustained through traditional and emerging communication media. Four groups with distinctive features were identified. One group (A) was composed of members who had the highest efficiency in terms of the structural whole concept, and they had received the highest number of hyperlinks with other universities. The first group (A) showed high numbers of out-links toward two other groups (C and D). However, one group (C) had a relatively significant number of links to other members in the same group (within-group links), while the other group (D) did not. Analysis confirmed that hyperlink creation and reception correlate with authorship, indicating that expanding one’s research identity via hyper-links might be an indicator of the productiveness of researchers and research institutes.

Key Words: webometrics • cybermetrics • Web indicators • social network analysis • Korea


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