Mike Thelwall

Professor of Information Science
School of Technology
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton, UK

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Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science in the School of Technology at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, where he leads the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group. He was previously Reader, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, which he joined in 1989. His PhD was in Pure Mathematics at the University of Lancaster, UK. His current research includes identifying and analysing web phenomena using quantitative-lead research methods. He has developed a wide range of tools for gathering and analysing web data, including a research web crawler and software for statistical and topological analyses of site structures (through links) and site content (through text). He has developed methods for the automatic gathering of blog postings and analysis of Twitter text using sentiment analysis as well as data mining methods for social network sites. His total list of 255 publications includes 152 refereed journal articles and two books, and he sits on nine editorial boards. He is a former member of the EU funded WISER and CREEN projects, and is a current member of CyberEmotions.

Selected key publications:

Kousha, K., M. Thelwall and S. Rezaie, S. 2010. Using the Web for research evaluation: The Integrated Online Impact indicator. Journal of Informetrics, 4 (1), 124-135.

Thelwall, M. 2009. MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33 (1), 58-76.

Kousha, K. and M. Thelwall. 2008. Assessing the impact of disciplinary research on teaching: An automatic analysis of online syllabuses. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (13), 2060-2069.

Thelwall, M. 2008. How are social network sites embedded in the web? An exploratory link analysis. Cybermetrics. 12 (1), paper 1.

Thelwall, M. P. Wouters and J. Fry. 2008. Information-Centred Research for large-scale analysis of new information sources. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (9), 1523-1527.

Thelwall, M. 2008. Quantitative comparisons of search engine results. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (11), 1702-1710.

Thelwall, M. and K. Kousha. 2008. Online presentations as a source of scientific impact?: An analysis of PowerPoint files citing academic journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (5), 805 – 815.

 

Publications

Bar-Ilan, Judit, Hadas Shema, and Mike Thelwall. 2013. "(in press) Bibliographic References in Web 2.0." In Next Generation Metrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Performance, edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy Sugimoto, MIT Press.

Kousha, Kayvan and Mike Thelwall. 2013. "(in press) Web Impact Metrics for Research Assessment." In Next Generation Metrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Performance, edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy Sugimoto, MIT Press.

Kousha, Kayvan and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "The role of online videos in research communication: A content analysis of YouTube videos cited in academic publications." Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 63 (9): 1710.

Shema, Hadas, Judit Bar-Ilan, and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information." PLoS ONE, 7 (5).

Shema, Hadas, Judit Bar-Ilan, and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "Self- Citation of Bloggers in the Science Blogosphere." In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science and the Internet (CoSci12), edited by Tokar, Düsseldorf University Press.

Thelwall, Mike, Pardeep Sud, and Farida Vis. 2012. "Commenting on YouTube videos: From guatemalan rock to El Big Bang." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (3): 616.

Thelwall, Mike, Pardeep Sud, and David Wilkinson. 2012. "Link and co-inlink network diagrams with URL citations or title mentions." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (4): 805.

Thelwall, Mike. 2012. "Assessing the impact of online academic videos." In Social Information Research, edited by Gunilla Widén and Kim Holmberg, 195-213. Emerald Group Pub Limited.

Bar-Ilan, Judit, Hadas Shema, and Mike Thelwall. 0000. "Bibliographic references in Web 2.0: Science blogs and reference managers." In (submitted to) Next generation metrics: Harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly performance, edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy Sugimoto, MIT Press.

Presentations

Bar-Ilan, Judit, Hadas Shema, and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "Discussing Research with the Public in the Blogosphere." Paper presented at Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights. 2012 March 12. University of Oxford.

Didegah, F. and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "Predictive Indicators of Research Citation Impact in S&T Fields: A Case Study of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology." Paper presented at 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 5-8 September. 2012. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Kousha, Kayvan and Mike Thelwall. 2012. "Motivations for Citing Youtube Videos in the Academic Publications: A Contextual." Paper presented at 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 5-8 September. 2012. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Thelwall, Mike. 2012. "Keynote - Webometrics: The Evolution of a Digital Social Science Research Field." Paper presented at Oii Symposium - Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights. 2012 March 12. University of Oxford.

Thelwall, Mike. 2011. "Keynote - Evaluating online evidence of research impact." Paper presented at AltMetrics Workshop, ACM Web Sci '11, 3rd International Conference on Web Science. 2011 June 14. Koblenz, Germany.

Wouters, Paul, Isidro Aguillo, Judit Bar-Ilan, Frank Havemann, Hildrun Kretschmer, Ülle Must, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Mike Thelwall. 2011. "Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN)." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 02 November. 2011. Cleveland, OH.