Structural analysis of the Iberoamerican academic web
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https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2009.3.689Keywords:
information visualization, social network analysis, webometrics, university webAbstract
This work provides a visual display of the domain network the most important Iberoamerican universities. The topological characteristics of this network are described, and the web relationships among the universities of different countries and continents are examined. The top 350 institutions of higher education of Iberoamerica were selected from the Ranking Web of World Universities and their link relationships obtained from Yahoo! Search. Network graphs and geographical maps were constructed from the search engine data. Social network analysis techniques were used to analyse and describe the structural properties of the network and its nodes. The results show that the Iberoamerican network is composed of national sub-networks that merge to form a central core. The Spanish language sub-network dominates the Iberoamerican network, which is split into two linguistic regions: Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) and Spanish (the remaining countries).
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