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Hyperlink Network Analysis

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.

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Hyperlink Network Analysis of Web Structure

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Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Hyperlink analyses of the World Wide Web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4). · DOI 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00223.x
Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 9780521387071

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