Publications - Mike Thelwall - Partial List

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Blogs and RSS

  1. Koteyko, N. Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (in press). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation, Science Communication.
  2. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.
  3. Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2008/2009 forthcoming). Developing network indicators for ideological landscapes from the political blogosphere in South Korea, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
  4. Thelwall, M. & Hasler, L. (2007). Blog search engines. Online Information Review, 31(4), 467-479.
  5. Thelwall, M., Byrne, A. & Goody, M. (2007). Which types of news story attract bloggers? Information Research 12(4).
  6. Lamboitte, R., Ausloos, M. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Word statistics in Blogs and RSS feeds: Towards empirical universal evidence. Journal of Informetrics, 1(4), 277-286.
  7. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M. & Alexandrov, M. (2007). Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. Journal of Informetrics.
  8. Thelwall, M. (2007). Blog searching: The first general-purpose source of retrospective public opinion in the social sciences? Online Information Review, 31(3), 277-289.
  9. Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D. (2007). RUOK? Communication technologies blogged during a crisis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(9).
  10. Thelwall, M. & Prabowo, R. (2007). Identifying and characterinsing public science-related fears from RSS feeds. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(3), 379-390.
  11. Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).
  12. Thelwall, M. (2006). Bloggers during the London attacks: Top information sources and topics. WWW2006 blog workshop, http://www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/papers/blogs-during-london-attacks.pdf
  13. Prabowo, R. & Thelwall, M. (2006). A comparison of feature selection methods for an evolving RSS feed corpus. Information Processing & Management (Informetrics special issue), 42(6), 1491-1512.
  14. Thelwall, M., Prabowo, R. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Are raw RSS feeds suitable for broad issue scanning? A science concern case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(12), 1644-1654.
  15. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2006). Language evolution and the spread of ideas: A procedure for identifying emergent hybrid word family members. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1326-1337.

Folksonomy

  1. Angus, E., Thelwall, M., Stuart, D. (2011, in press). Flickr’s potential as an academic image resource: an exploratory study. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
  2. Angus, E., Stuart D., & Thelwall, M. Flickr, (2008). General patterns of tag usage among university groups in Flickr, Online Information Review, 32(1), 89-101.

Social networking

  1. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (in press). Public dialogs in social network sites: What is their purpose?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  2. Thelwall, M., Wilkinson, D. & Uppal, S.(2010). Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 190-199.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2009). Social network sites: Users and uses. In: M. Zelkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Computers 76. Amsterdam: Elsevier (pp. 19-73). (email for a preprint).
  4. Thelwall, M. (2009, to appear). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.
  6. Thelwall, M. (2008). No place for news in social networking web sites? Online Information Review, 32(6), 726-744.
  7. Thelwall, M. (2008). How are social network sites embedded in the web? An exploratory link analysis. Cybermetrics. 12(1), paper 1.
  8. Thelwall, M. (2008). Text in social network web sites: A word frequency analysis of Live Spaces, First Monday 13(2).
  9. Thelwall, M. (2008). Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(8), 1321-1330.
  10. Thelwall, M. (2008). Fk yea I swear: Cursing and gender in a corpus of MySpace pages, Corpora, 3(1), 83-107. Preprint (with extended literature review and background information compared to the published version, and a revised first two paragraphs of the conclusion [8 Jan, 2008]) available at: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/papers/MySpaceSwearing_online.doc
  11. Thelwall, M. (2008). Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(8), 1321-1330.

Sentiment analysis

  1. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., (2009). Sentiment analysis: A combined approach, Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 143-157.
 

Link Analysis Methods

  1. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2008). A generic lexical URL segmentation framework for counting links, colinks or URLs, Library and Information Science Research, 30(2), 94-101. [publisher's final version]
  2. Thelwall, M. (2006). Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), 60-68.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2004). Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research. Research Evaluation, 13(1), 63-68.
  4. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2005). Mathematical models for academic Webs: Linear relationship or non-linear power law? Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1495-1510.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2004). Methods for reporting on the targets of links from national systems of university Web sites. Information Processing & Management, 40(1), 125-144.
  6. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Three target document range metrics for university Web sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(6), 489-496.
  7. Thelwall, M. (2003). Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic web sites, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 11-20.
  8. Thelwall, M. (2002). Conceptualizing documentation on the Web: an evaluation of different heuristic-based models for counting links between university web sites, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(12), 995-1005.
  9. Thelwall, M. (2002). Sources of links for WIF calculations, Journal of Documentation 58(1) 60-72.
  10. Thelwall, M. (2001). Extracting macroscopic information from web links, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(13), 1157-1168.
  11. Thelwall, M. (2001). Exploring the link structure of the web with network diagrams, Journal of Information Science 27(6) 393-402.
  12. Thelwall, M. (2004). Web citation analysis. Emerald Link Learning Curve.
  13. Thelwall, M. (2004). Link analysis: An information science approach. San Diego: Academic Press.
  14. Thelwall, M. (2005). Data cleansing and validation for Multiple Site Link Structure Analysis. In: Scime, A. (Ed.), Web Mining: Applications and Techniques. Idea Group Inc, pp. 208-227.

Factors in Link Creation

  1. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics.
  2. Harries, G., Wilkinson, D., Price, E., Fairclough, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping, Journal of Information Science, 30(5), 436-447.
  3. Thelwall, M., & Harries, G. (2004). Do better scholars’ web publications have significantly higher online impact? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(2), 149-159.
  4. Thelwall, M. (2003). What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation, Information research, 8(3).
  5. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L., Cothey, V., Li, X. & Smith, A. (2003). Which academic subjects have most online impact? A pilot study and a new classification process, Online Information Review 27(5), 333-343.
  6. Thelwall, M., Harries, G., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Why do web sites from different academic subjects interlink? Journal of Information Science, 29(6), 445-463.
  7. Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2003). The connection between the research of a University and Counts of Links to its Web Pages: An investigation based upon a classification of the relationships of pages to the research of the host university. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(7), 594-602.
  8. Thelwall, M., Tang, R. & Price, E. (2003). Linguistic patterns of academic web use in Western Europe, Scientometrics, 56(3), 417-432.
  9. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Scholarly use of the web: What are the key inducers of links to journal web sites? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 29-38.
  10. Wilkinson, D., Harries, G., Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2003). Motivations for academic web site interlinking: Evidence for the web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly communication, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 29(1), 59-66.
  11. Thelwall, M. (2002). A research and institutional size based model for national university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(6), 683-694.
  12. Thelwall, M. (2002). The top 100 linked pages on UK university web sites: high inlink counts are not usually directly associated with quality scholarly content, Journal of Information Science, 28(6), 485-493.
  13. Thelwall, M. (2002). Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(5), 563-574.

Longitudinal Link Analysis

  1. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of Alternative Document Models. ASLIB Proceedings., 61(1), 101-116.
  2. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Do academic link types change over time?, Journal of Documentation, 64(5), 707-720.
  3. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Longitudinal trends in academic web links. Journal of Information Science, 34(1), 3-14. http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/1/3?etoc
  4. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2007). A longitudinal study of academic webs: Growth and stabilisation, Scientometrics, 71(3), 523-539

General Link Analysis

  1. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523.

Political Link Analysis

  1. Park, H. W. & Thelwall, M. (2007, to appear). Web linkage pattern and social structure using politicians’ websites in South Korea. Quality & Quantity
  2. Park, H.W., Thelwall, M. & Kluver, R. (2005). Political hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical indicators of ideology and content, Sociological Research Online.

Commercial-Academic Link Analysis

  1. Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Investigating triple helix relationships using URL citations: A case study of the UK West Midlands automobile industry. Research Evaluation , 15(2), 97-106 .
  2. Stuart, D., Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2007). UK academic web links and collaboration – an exploratory study. Journal of Information Science, 33(2), 231-246.
  3. Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2004). Can personal web pages that link to universities yield information about the wider dissemination of research? Journal of Information Science, 30(3), 243-256.
  4. Thelwall, M. (2004). Can the web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research? Online Information Review, 28(2), 120-130.

Digital Library Link Analysis

  1. Zuccala, A., Thelwall, M., Oppenheim, C., & Dhiensa, R. (2008, to appear). Web Intelligence Analyses of Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Journal of Documentation.

Journal Link Analysis

  1. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Motivations for URL citations to open access LIS library and information science articles: Exploring characteristics of sources of Web citation. Scientometrics , 68(3), 501-517.
  2. Kim, H., Park, H.W., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Comparing academic hyperlink structures with journal publishing in Korea: A social network analysis, Science Communication, 27(4), 540-564

Link Analysis Case Studies

  1. Thelwall, M., Klitkou, A., Verbeek, A., Stuart, D. & Vincent, C. (in press). Policy-relevant webometrics for individual scientific fields.
  2. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics.
  3. Barjak, F. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life sciences research teams. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.59(4), 628-643.
  4. Thelwall, M., Li, X., Barjak, F. & Robinson, S. (2008). Assessing the web connectivity of research groups on an international scale. ASLIB Proceedings.60(1), 18-31.
  5. Barjak, F., Li., X. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Which factors explain the web impact of scientists’ personal homepages? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(2), 200-211.
  6. Thoms, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self, First Monday, 10(12), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/thoms/
  7. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2005). National and international university departmental web site interlinking: Part 1, validation of departmental link analysis. Scientometrics, 64(2), 151-185.
  8. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2005). National and international university departmental web site interlinking: Part 2, link patterns. Scientometrics, 64(2), 187-208.
  9. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Web science communication in the age of globalization: Links among universities’ websites in Asia and Europe. New Media & Society, 8(4), 631-652
  10. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2004). A statistical analysis of UK academic web links. Cybermetrics. 8(1).
  11. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly, 78(4), 419-435.
  12. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities. Information Processing & Management, 41(2), 347-359.
  13. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Patterns of national and international web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations. Scientometrics, 60(3), 475-485.
  14. Thelwall, M. & Tang, R. (2003). Disciplinary and linguistic considerations for academic Web linking: An exploratory hyperlink mediated study with Mainland China and Taiwan, Scientometrics, 58(1), 153-179.
  15. Thelwall, M., & Aguillo, I. (2003). La salud de las Web universitarias españolas, Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 26(3), 291-305.
  16. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2003). Disciplinary differences in academic web presence – A statistical study of the UK. Libri, 53(4), 242-253.
  17. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Disciplinary differences in US academic departmental web site interlinking, Library & Information Science Research, 25(4), 437-458.
  18. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). The relationship between the links/Web Impact Factors of computer science departments in UK and their RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) ranking in 2001, Scientometrics, 57(2), 239-255.
  19. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Graph structure in three national academic Webs: Power laws with anomalies, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(8), 706-712.
  20. Thelwall, M. & Smith, A. (2002). A study of the interlinking between Asia-Pacific university web sites, Scientometrics, 55(3), 335-348.
  21. Smith, A. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factors for Australasian universities, Scientometrics, 54(1-2), 363-380.
  22. Thelwall, M. Binns, R. Harries, G. Page-Kennedy, T. Price E. and Wilkinson, D. (2002). European Union associated university websites, Scientometrics, 53(1), 95-111.
  23. Thelwall, M. (2002). An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university web sites, ASLIB Proceedings, 54(2), 118-126.
  24. Chu, H., He, S. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Library and information science schools in Canada and USA: A Webometric perspective. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 43(2), 110-125.
  25. Thelwall, M. (2001). Results from a Web Impact Factor crawler, Journal of Documentation, 57(2), 177-191.
  26. Soualmia, L.F., Darmoni, S.J. Le Duff, F., Douyère, M., & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factor: a bibliometric criterion applied to medical informatics societies’ Web sites, Medical Informatics in Europe MIE2002 congress (to be held in Budapest, Hungary, August 25-29).
  27. Douyère, M., Soualmia, L.F., Le Duff, F., Thelwall, M. & Darmoni, S.J. (2002). Web Impact Factor : un outil bibliométrique appliqué aux sites Web des facultés de médecine et des CHU français, Neuvièmes Journées Francophones d'Informatique Médicale. 6-7 mai 2002, Québec-Canada.
  28. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2005). Motivations for linking to open access LIS library and information science articles: Exploring characteristics of sources of Web citation. ISSI 2005.
 

Web Citation Analysis

  1. Kousha, K., Thelwall, M. & Rezaie, S. (2010). Using the Web for research evaluation: The Integrated Online Impact indicator,Journal of Informetrics, 4(1), 124-135.
  2. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Google Book Search: Citation analysis for social science and the humanities, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8), 1537-1549.
  3. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (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.
  4. Thelwall, M. & Kousha, K. (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.
  5. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). The web impact of open access social science research. Library and Information Science Research, 29(4), 495-507
  6. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007, to appear). Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines. Scientometrics.
  7. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). How is science cited on the web? A classification of Google unique web citations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(11), 1631-1644.
  8. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Google Scholar citations and Google Web/URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(6), 1055-1065.

Bibliometrics

  1. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (in press). Does the higher citation of collaborative research differ from region to region? A case study of Economics, Scientometrics.
  2. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2009). Citation levels and collaboration within Library and Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(3), 434-442.
  3. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Is multidisciplinary research more highly cited? A macro-level study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(12), 1973-1984.
  4. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles and the prediction of their citation ranking: A comparison across subjects, Scientometrics, 77(1), 41-60.
  5. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). The most highly cited Library and Information Science articles: Interdisciplinarity, first authors and citation patterns. Scientometrics.
 

Quantitative Methods for Social Science Research

  1. Thelwall, M. (2009). Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 2009, Vol. 1, No. 1).
  2. Thelwall, M., Wouters, P., & Fry, J. (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.
  3. Thelwall, M. & Wouters, P. (2005). What’s the deal with the web/Blogs/the next big technology: A key role for information science in e-social science research? CoLIS 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3507, 187-199.
  4. Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis, Encyclopedia of Virtual communities and Technologies, Idea Group Inc.
  5. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2005). The network approach to web hyperlink research and its utility for science communication, In: Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet (chapter 13), London: Berg (pp. 171-181).
  6. Wilkinson, D., Thelwall, M. & Li, X. (2003). Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use. Social Science Computer Review, 21(3), 340-351.
  7. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analyses of the world wide web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 8(4).
 

Web Text Analysis

  1. Shifman, L. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Assessing global diffusion with Web Memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60(12), 2567-2576.
  2. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2006). Language evolution and the spread of ideas: A procedure for identifying emergent hybrid word family members. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1326-1337.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2005). Creating and using web corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 10(4), 517-541.
  4. Price, E. & Thelwall, M. (2005). The clustering power of low frequency words in academic webs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(8), 883-888.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2005). Text characteristics of English language university web sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , 56(6), 609–619.

Scientific Web Intelligence

  1. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence: Finding relationships in university webs. Communications of the ACM, 48(7), 93-96.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2004). Vocabulary Spectral Analysis as an exploratory tool for Scientific Web Intelligence. 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation (14-16 July 2004, London) In: Information Visualization (IV04), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, pp. 501-506.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Wang, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Data warehousing and mining, Idea Group Inc.

Web Issue Analysis

  1. Thelwall, M., Thelwall, S. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Automated web issue analysis: A nurse prescribing case study. Information Processing & Management (Informetrics special issue), 42(6), 1471-1483.
  2. Thelwall, M., Vann, K. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Web issue analysis: An Integrated Water Resource Management case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1303-1314.
 

General Webometrics

  1. Thelwall, M. (2009). A webometric analysis of Olle Persson, In: Fredrik Åström, Rickard Danell, Birger Larsen and Jesper Wiborg Schneider (Eds), Celebrating scholarly communication studies: A festschrift for Olle Persson, ISSI (pp. 61-71).
  2. Thelwall, M. (2008). Bibliometrics to Webometrics, Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 605-621. [This paper has been accepted for publication in Journal of Information Science and the final (edited, revised and typeset), definitive version of this paper will be published in 2008 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © SAGE Publications Ltd]
  3. Thelwall, M., & Ruschenburg, T. (2006). Webometrie, Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8), 401-406.
  4. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, 81-135.
  5. Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D . (2006). Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy and denial of service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(13), 1771-1779.
  6. Thelwall, M. (2005). Webometrics. In: Drake, M. A. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, to appear online summer 2005.
  7. Kretschmer, H. & Thelwall, M. (2004). The way from librametry to webometrics. Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics, 1(1), 1-7.
  8. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L. (2004). Webometrics: An introduction to the special issue Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . 55(14), 1213-1215.
  9. Thelwall, M. (2002). Research dissemination and invocation on the web. Online Information Review 26(6), 413-420.
  10. Thelwall, M. (2002). Methodologies for crawler based web surveys, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 12(2), 124-138.

Search Engine Evaluation

  1. Thelwall, M. (2008/9, to appear). Quantitative comparisons of search engine results, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2008). Extracting accurate and complete results from search engines: Case study Windows Live. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 38-50.
  3. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes, Information Processing & Management, 40(4), 693-707.
  4. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L. (2004). A fair history of the Web? Examining country balance in the Internet Archive, Library & Information Science Research, 26(2), 162-176.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2002). In praise of Google: finding law journal web sites, Online Information Review, 26(4), 271-272.
  6. Thelwall, M. (2002). Subject gateway sites and search engine ranking, Online Information Review, 26(2), 101-107.
  7. Thelwall, M. (2001). The responsiveness of search engine indexes, Cybermetrics, 5(1), http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v5i1p1.html.
  8. Thelwall, M. (2000). Web Impact Factors and search engine coverage, Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 185-189.
  9. Thelwall, M. (2001). A survey of search engine capabilities useful in data mining, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 38 (ASIST 2001) 24-30.
  10. Thelwall, M. Binns, R. Harries, G. Page-Kennedy, T. Price E., & Wilkinson, D. (2001). Custom interfaces for advanced queries in search engines, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(10), 413-422.
  11. Thelwall, M. (2005). Directing students to new information types: A new role for Google in literature searches?, Internet Reference Services Quarterly , 10(3/4), 159-166.

Web Crawlers

  1. Thelwall, M. (2003). A free database of university Web links: Data collection issues. Cybermetrics, 6.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2001). A web crawler design for data mining, Journal of Information Science 27(5), 319-325.
 

Link-Based Algorithms

  1. Rousseau, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Escher staircases on the world wide web. FirstMonday, 9(6).
  2. Musgrove, P., Binns, R., Page-Kennedy, T., & Thelwall, M. (2004). A method for identifying clusters in sets of interlinking Web spaces, Scientometrics, 58(3), 657-672.
  3. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2004). Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks. Information Processing & Management, 40(3), 515-526.
  4. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L (2004). New versions of PageRank employing alternative Web document models, ASLIB Proceedings, 56(1), 24-33.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2003). Can Google’s PageRank be used to find the most important academic web pages? Journal of Documentation, 59(2), 205-217.
  6. Thelwall, M. (2003). A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the web, Journal of Documentation, 59(4), 410-429.
 

Online Social Marketing

  1. Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2009). The dimensions of website credibility and their relation to active trust and behavioural impact, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 24, 455-472.
  2. Cugelman, B., Thelwall M., & Dawes P. (2007). Can brotherhood be sold like soap…Online? An online social marketing and advocacy pilot study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Persuasive Technology 07), 4744, 144-147.

Commercial Web Sites

  1. Thelwall, M. (2001). Commercial web site links, Internet Research, 11(2), 114-124.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2000). Who is using the .co.uk domain? Professional and media adoption of the Web, International Journal of Information Management, 20(6), 441-453
  3. Thelwall, M. (2000). Effective web sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159.
  4. Thelwall, M. (2000). Commercial web sites: Lost in cyberspace?, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 10(2), 150-159.
  5. Thelwall, M. (2000), Implications of Search Engine Coverage on the Viability of commercial websites, poster session in ICEIS 2000, 14/4/00, Staffordshire University.
 

Virtual Learning Environments

  1. Thelwall, M. (1999). Will MANs and SuperJANET dominate educational technology in the UK? International Journal of Educational Technology 1(1).
  2. Thelwall, M. (1998). A unique style of computer assisted assessment, Alt-J, 6(2) 49-57.
  3. Thelwall, M. (1998). A Virtual Reality Machine for Vector Geometry, Alt-C 98 poster/demonstration, University of Oxford.
  4. Thelwall, M. (1998). The Virtual Campus - Paradigm or Metaphor?, Alt-C 98, University of Oxford.
  5. Thompson, D., Thelwall, M. & McKenna, R. (1997). Developing a short course on the Internet for Business, Proceedings of the CTI computing conference, Dublin August 1997.

Computer Assisted Assessment

  1. Thelwall, M. (2001). Understanding and assessment methodology in an introductory statistics course, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 20(3), 251-264.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2000). Computer Based Assessment: A versatile educational tool. Journal of Computers and Education, 34, 37-49.
  3. Thelwall, M. (1999). Open Access Randomly Generated Tests: Assessment to Drive Learning, In Brown, S., Race, P. and Bull, J., Computer Assisted Assessment in Higher Education, London: Kogan Page. ISBN 0 7494 3035 4.
  4. Thelwall, M. (1999), The Promotion of Understanding by the use of Open Access Computerised Assessment in Introductory Mathematics and Statistics Courses, Alt-C 99, University of Bristol, September 1999.
  5. Thelwall, M. (1999), Randomly generated motivation from Maths and Stats Tests, Maths and Stats, 10(1), 13-16. (Magazine article)
  6. Bishop, P., Cox, B., Fothergill, R., Kyle, J., Lawson, D., Mitchell, M., Rathbone, J., Stone, E. and Thelwall, M. (2001), Inter-Institutional collaboration on easing the transition to university, LTSN Maths and Stats Newsletter, 1(1),5-8 .
  7. Thelwall, M. (1998). The Advantages of Randomly generated computer assisted assessment, Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough June 1998.
 

Operator Algebras

  1. Thelwall, M. (1991). Maximal triangular subalgebras of AF algebras, Journal of Operator Theory, 25(1), 163-176.
  2. Thelwall, M. (1991). Dilation theory for subalgebras of AF algebras, Journal of Operator Theory, 25(2), 275-282.
 

Others

  1. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2009, to appear). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.
  2. Thelwall, M. Barlow, A., & Vann, K. (2005). The limits of web-based empowerment: Integrated Water Resource Management case studies. First Monday 10(4).
  3. Thelwall, M. (2004). Will digital libraries generate a new need for multi-disciplinary research skills? LIBRES, 14(2).
  4. Thelwall, M. (2001). Web log file analysis: Backlinks and queries, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(6), 217-223.

Statistical Process Control

  1. Thompson, D., Homer, G. & Thelwall, M. (2000). An examination of the potential role of the Internet in distributed SPC and Quality Systems. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 16(1), p51-57.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2000). Linking SPC data via the Internet, workshop at PCI 2000, Strathclyde University.
  3. Thompson, D., Homer, G. & Thelwall, M. (1999). SPC and Quality Systems: The Potential Role of the Internet, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Control of Industrial Processes, University of Newcastle, March 1999.

JavaScript Teaching

  1. Thelwall, M. (2002). Web order forms with JavaScript. University of Wolverhampton.