SocSciBot – Social Sciences Link Analysis Research
http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk/

SocSciBot is a Web site crawler designed for link analysis research. It can be used to conduct link analysis on a single site or collection of sites, or to run a search engine on a collection of sites. It can also be used in teaching, to illustrate how link analysis and search engines work. Note that SocSciBot does not work well on web sites with non-ASCII URLs and Cyclist does not work well on web sites with non-ASCII text. SocSciBot works by (a) crawling one or more web sites and then (b) analysing them to produce standard statistics about the interlinking between the sites and network diagrams of the interlinking. It can also run a limited linguistic analysis of the text in the collection of web sites. If you need to analyse links to one or more web sites, then LexiURL Searcher is recommended instead. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.