Scholars are paying increased attention to academic blogs.Hyperlinking,as a crucial characteristic,makes academic blogs be convenient platforms for knowledge communication and sharing.On the basis of literature review,this paper puts forward types of hyperlinks in academic blogs.Furthermore,data are collected from 35 blogs from different disciplines,and the types of links are refined by analyzing pages and texts hyperlinked.Finally the roles that hyperlinks play in the blogs are explored.Results show that,a variety of hyperlinks exist in ac...