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	Hyperlink Network Analysis	Network Text Analysis
Field	Communication	Communication
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2006	2002
Originator	Han Woo Park & Mike Thelwall (webometrics)	Corman et al. (centering resonance analysis); network text tradition
Type	Network analysis of hyperlinks among websites as social and communicative ties	Representation and analysis of text as networks of linked concepts
Seminal source	Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Hyperlink analyses of the World Wide Web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4).	Corman, S. R., Kuhn, T., McPhee, R. D., & Dooley, K. J. (2002). Studying complex discursive systems: Centering resonance analysis of communication. Human Communication Research, 28(2), 157–206.
Aliases	HNA, Webometric hyperlink analysis, Web hyperlink network analysis, Köprü Bağlantı Ağı Analizi	Text network analysis, Centering resonance analysis, Concept network analysis, Ağ Tabanlı Metin Analizi
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Summary	Hyperlink network analysis (HNA) treats the hyperlinks among websites as social and communicative ties and applies social-network methods to the resulting web graph. Developed within webometrics by Park, Thelwall, and others, it reads a link from one organization's site to another's as a signal of endorsement, affiliation, or attention, and maps how actors — governments, NGOs, companies, media — are connected online.	Network text analysis represents the content of text not as counts of words or topics but as a network of concepts linked by their relationships, then applies social-network methods to reveal which ideas are central and how they connect. Centering resonance analysis (CRA), introduced by Corman and colleagues in 2002, is a leading variant that builds concept networks from the noun phrases that structure discourse.