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It has been shown that information collected from and about links between web pages and web sites can reflect real world phenomena and relationships between the organizations they represent. Yet, government linking has not been extensively studied from a webometric point of view. The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of governmental interlinking and to shed some light on the possible real world phenomena it may indicate. We show that interlinking between local government bodies in Finland follows a strong geographic, or rather a geopolitical pattern and that governmental interlinking is mostly motivated by official cooperation that geographic adjacency has made possible.
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Holmberg, K., Thelwall, M. Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis. Scientometrics 79, 157–169 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0410-6
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