Web CV - Mike Thelwall

Professor of Information Science, Webometrics and cybermetrics researcher: Developing quantitative methods for Internet phenomena, including hyperlinks and Web 2.0 social networks

School of Computing & IT, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. Tel. +44 1902 321470. Fax +44 1902 321478.

Head, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group in the Research Institute for Information and Language Processing (RIILP).

Honorary Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam.

Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.

Docent, Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Advisor, InfluenceFinder: Finding influential and relevant conversations for online marketers and SearchDNA.

Mike Thelwall

 

Review chapter about social network sites research (MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, etc.) - please email for a copy: Thelwall, M. (2009). Social network sites: Users and uses. In: M. Zelkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Computers 76. Amsterdam: Elsevier (pp. 19-73).

Refereed journal articles - email m.thelwall {at} wlv.ac.uk for copies. See also publications organised by topic area.

  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. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2010). Public dialogs in social network sites: What is their purpose?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(2), 392-404
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., (2009). Sentiment analysis: A combined approach, Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 143-157.
  10. 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. Please note that seven Price medallists (Moravscik MJ; Merton RK; Vlachy, J; Irvine, J; Nalimov VV; Martin BR; Rousseau R) were omitted from the table of results - these are all clearly highly influential information scientists but did not meet one of the technical criteria mentioned in the methods for conducting the analysis. 
  11. Thelwall, M. (2009). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.60(2), 219-231
  12. Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.[an analysis of words used in MySpace comments]
  13. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of Alternative Document Models. ASLIB Proceedings., 61(1), 101-116.
  14. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Thelwall, M. (2008). No place for news in social networking web sites? Online Information Review, 32(6), 726-744.
  18. Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Developing network indicators for ideological landscapes from the political blogosphere in South Korea. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(4), 856-879.
  19. Thelwall, M. (2008). How are social network sites embedded in the web? An exploratory link analysis. Cybermetrics. 12(1), paper 1.
  20. Thelwall, M. (2008). Text in social network web sites: A word frequency analysis of Live Spaces, First Monday 13(2).
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Thelwall, M. (2008). Quantitative comparisons of search engine results, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11), 1702-1710. [See also Google patents, which are relevant and I hadn't spotted at the time. Particularly this]
  24. 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
  25. Prabowo, R, & Thelwall, M. (2008). Finding and tracking subjects in a debate over time, Journal of Informetrics, 2(2), 107-127
  26. 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
  27. 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]
  28. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics.
  29. 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.
  30. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Do academic link types change over time?, Journal of Documentation, 64(5), 707-720.
  31. Angus, E., Thelwall, M., & Stuart D. (2008). General patterns of tag usage among university groups in Flickr, Online Information Review, 32(1), 89-101.
  32. 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.
  33. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2009). The most highly cited library and information science articles: Interdisciplinarity, first authors and citation patterns. Scientometrics, 78(1), 45-67.
  34. Thelwall, M. & Zuccala, A. (2008). A university-centred European Union link analysis, Scientometrics, 75(3), 407-420.
  35. Thelwall, M., Byrne, A. & Goody, M. (2007). Which types of news story attract bloggers? Information Research 12(4).
  36. 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]
  37. 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.
  38. 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
  39. 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.
  40. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines. Scientometrics, 74(2). 273-294.
  41. Park, H. W. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Web linkage pattern and social structure using politicians’ websites in South Korea. Quality & Quantity, 42(6), 687-697.
  42. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly, 78(4), 419-435.
  43. 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.
  44. Zuccala, A., Thelwall, M., Oppenheim, C., & Dhiensa, R. (2007). Web Intelligence Analyses of Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Journal of Documentation, 63(4), 558-589.
  45. 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
  46. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). The web impact of open access social science research. Library and Information Science Research. 29(4), 495-507.
  47. 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.
  48. Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D. (2007). RUOK? Communication technologies blogged during a crisis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(9).
  49. Thelwall, M. & Hasler, L. (2007). Blog search engines. Online Information Review, 31(4), 467-479.
  50. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M. & Alexandrov, M. (2007). Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. Journal of Informetrics.
  51. 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. [publisher version]
  52. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2007). A longitudinal study of academic webs: Growth and stabilisation, Scientometrics, 71(3), 523-539
  53. 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.
  54. Stuart, D., Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2007). UK academic web links and collaboration – an exploratory study. Journal of Information Science, 33(2), 231-246.
  55. Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).
  56. Thelwall, M. & Prabowo, R. (2007). Identifying and characterising public science-related fears from RSS feeds. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(3), 379-390.
  57. 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.
  58. Thelwall, M., & Ruschenburg, T. (2006). Webometrie, Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8), 401-406.
  59. 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 .
  60. 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.
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. Thelwall, M., Barjak, F. & Kretchmer, H. (2006). Web links and gender in science: An exploratory analysis. Scientometrics, 67(3), 373-383.
  68. 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
  69. 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
  70. 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.
  71. Thelwall, M. (2005). Creating and using web corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 10(4), 517-541.
  72. Park, H.W., Thelwall, M. & Kluver, R. (2005). Political hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical indicators of ideology and content, Sociological Research Online, 10(3).
  73. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523.
  74. Thoms, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self, First Monday, 10(12),
  75. Thelwall, M. Barlow, A., & Vann, K. (2005). The limits of web-based empowerment: Integrated Water Resource Management case studies. First Monday 10(4).
  76. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2005). Mathematical models for academic Webs: Linear relationship or non-linear power law? Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1495-1510.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities. Information Processing & Management, 41(2), 347-359.
  81. 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.
  82. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2004). A statistical analysis of UK academic web links. Cybermetrics. 8(1).
  83. 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.
  84. Rousseau, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Escher staircases on the world wide web. FirstMonday, 9(6).
  85. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence: Finding relationships in university webs. Communications of the ACM, 48(7), 93-96.
  86. 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.
  87. Thelwall, M. (2004). Will digital libraries generate a new need for multi-disciplinary research skills? LIBRES, 14(2).
  88. 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.
  89. Kretschmer, H. & Thelwall, M. (2004). The way from librametry to webometrics. Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics, 1(1), 1-7.
  90. Thelwall, M. (2004). Can the web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research? Online Information Review, 28(2), 120-130.
  91. Thelwall, M. (2004). Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research. Research Evaluation, 13(1), 63-68.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. Thelwall, M., & Harries, G. (2004). Do better scholars’ web publications have significantly higher online impact? [preprint] Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(2), 149-159.
  95. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes, Information Processing & Management, 40(4), 693-707.
  96. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2004). Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks. Information Processing & Management, 40(3), 515-526.
  97. 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.
  98. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L (2004). New versions of PageRank employing alternative Web document models, ASLIB Proceedings, 56(1), 24-33.
  99. 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.
  100. 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.
  101. Wilkinson, D., Thelwall, M. & Li, X. (2003). Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use. Social Science Computer Review, 21(3), 340-351.
  102. 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).
  103. Thelwall, M., & Aguillo, I. (2003). La salud de las Web universitarias españolas, Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 26(3), 291-305.
  104. 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.
  105. Thelwall, M. (2003). A free database of university Web links: Data collection issues. Cybermetrics, 6.
  106. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2003). Disciplinary differences in academic web presence – A statistical study of the UK. Libri, 53(4), 242-253.
  107. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Disciplinary differences in US academic departmental web site interlinking, Library & Information Science Research, 25(4), 437-458.
  108. Thelwall, M. (2003). A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the web, Journal of Documentation, 59(4), 410-429.
  109. Thelwall, M., Harries, G., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Why do web sites from different academic subjects interlink? Journal of Information Science, 29(6), 445-463.
  110. 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.
  111. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analyses of the world wide web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 8(4).
  112. 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.
  113. 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.
  114. Thelwall, M. (2003). Can Google’s PageRank be used to find the most important academic web pages? Journal of Documentation, 59(2), 205-217.
  115. 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.
  116. Thelwall, M., Tang, R. & Price, E. (2003). Linguistic patterns of academic web use in Western Europe, Scientometrics, 56(3), 417-432.
  117. 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.
  118. 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), 59-66.
  119. Thelwall, M. (2003). Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic web sites, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 11-20.
  120. Thelwall, M. (2002). Research dissemination and invocation on the web. Online Information Review 26(6), 413-420.
  121. Thelwall, M. & Smith, A. (2002). A study of the interlinking between Asia-Pacific university web sites, Scientometrics, 55(3), 335-348.
  122. Thelwall, M. (2002). A research and institutional size based model for national university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(6), 683-694.
  123. 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.
  124. Thelwall, M. (2002). Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(5), 563-574.
  125. 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.
  126. Thelwall, M. (2002). In praise of Google: finding law journal web sites, Online Information Review, 26(4), 271-272.
  127. Smith, A. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factors for Australasian universities, Scientometrics, 54(1-2), 363-380.
  128. Thelwall, M. (2002). Methodologies for crawler based web surveys, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 12(2), 124-138.
  129. Thelwall, M. (2002). Subject gateway sites and search engine ranking, Online Information Review, 26(2), 101-107.
  130. 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.
  131. Thelwall, M. (2002). Sources of links for WIF calculations, Journal of Documentation 58(1) 60-72.
  132. Thelwall, M. (2002). An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university web sites, ASLIB Proceedings, 54(2), 118-126.
  133. 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.
  134. Thelwall, M. (2001). Extracting macroscopic information from web links, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(13), 1157-1168.
  135. Thelwall, M. (2001). Exploring the link structure of the web with network diagrams, Journal of Information Science, 27(6) 393-402.
  136. 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.
  137. Thelwall, M. (2001). A web crawler design for data mining, Journal of Information Science 27(5), 319-325.
  138. Thelwall, M. (2001). Understanding and assessment methodology in an introductory statistics course, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 20(3), 251-264.
  139. Thelwall, M. (2001). The responsiveness of search engine indexes, Cybermetrics, 5(1), http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v5i1p1.html.
  140. Thelwall, M. (2001). Web log file analysis: Backlinks and queries, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(6), 217-223.
  141. Thelwall, M. (2001). Commercial web site links, Internet Research, 11(2), 114-124.
  142. Thelwall, M. (2001). Results from a Web Impact Factor crawler, Journal of Documentation, 57(2), 177-191.
  143. 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
  144. Thelwall, M. (2000). Effective web sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159.
  145. Thelwall, M. (2000). Web Impact Factors and search engine coverage, Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 185-189.
  146. Thelwall, M. (2000). Commercial web sites: Lost in cyberspace?, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 10(2), 150-159.
  147. Thelwall, M. (2000). Computer Based Assessment: A versatile educational tool. Journal of Computers and Education, 34, 37-49.
  148. 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.
  149. Thelwall, M. (1999). Will MANs and SuperJANET dominate educational technology in the UK? International Journal of Educational Technology 1(1).
  150. Thelwall, M. (1998). A unique style of computer assisted assessment, Alt-J, 6(2), 49-57.
  151. Thelwall, M. (1991). Maximal triangular subalgebras of AF algebras, Journal of Operator Theory, 25(1), 163-176.
  152. Thelwall, M. (1991). Dilation theory for subalgebras of AF algebras, Journal of Operator Theory, 25(2), 275-282.
 

Book chapters

  1. Thelwall, M. (2009). Social network sites: Users and uses. In: M. Zelkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Computers 76. Amsterdam: Elsevier (pp. 19-73).
  2. 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).
  3. Thelwall, M. (2009). Bibliometrics to Webometrics, In: A. Gilchrist, Information science in transition, London: Facet Publishing (pp. 347-376).
  4. Thelwall, M. (2009). Visualization in e-Social Science. In. N. Jankowski (Ed.). E-Research: Transformation in scholarly practice. New York: Routledge (p. 163-181).
  5. Park, H.-W. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Rede de Hyperlinks: estudo da estrutura social na internet. In Duarte, Fabio, Quandt, Carlos Souza, Queila "O tempo das redes" (pp. 191-216) Perspectiva: Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.editoraperspectiva.com.br/livro.php?cod=850&tip=sum
  6. Thelwall, M. (2005). Directing students to new information types: A new role for Google in literature searches?, In: Miller, W., Pellen, R.M (Eds): Libraries and Google, 159-166.
  7. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, 81-135.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

Encyclopedia articles

  1. Maggioni, M. A., Thelwall, M., & Uberti, T. E. (2009). Measuring and mapping the world wide web through web hyperlinks. In: Pagani, M. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, 2nd Ed. (Volume 2), pp. 887-893.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2008). Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Wang, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of data warehousing and mining 2nd Edition, Idea Group Inc.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2008). Link Analysis. The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Volume VI. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA), 2715-2716.
  4. Thelwall, M. (2007). Hyperlink analysis, In: Reynolds, R., Woods, R., & Baker, J. (Eds.) Handbook of research on electronic surveys and measurements, Idea Group Inc. (Chapter XXXI) http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?id=5070
  5. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Wang, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Data warehousing and mining, Idea Group Inc.
  6. Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis, Encyclopedia of Virtual communities and Technologies, Idea Group Inc.
  7. Thelwall, M. (2005). Webometrics. In: Drake, M. A. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.
 

Books

  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). Webometrics book blog here.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2004). Link analysis: An information science approach. San Diego: Academic Press.
  3. Thelwall, M. (2002). Web order forms with JavaScript. University of Wolverhampton.
 
Keynote/Plenary talks
  1. Information Behaviour and Web 2.0 Social Networks, Information behaviour on the Internet – challenges for the libraries, Turku, Finland, 2008.
  2. Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy. Oslo University College. September 29th, 2006.
  3. nternational Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, LORIA-INIST, Nancy, France. May 10th, 2006. [Thelwall, M., (2006). WISER Webometrics COLLNET 2006 Proceedings, 157-161.]

Refereed conference papers

  1. Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2009). Communication-based influence components model. Persuasive 09.
  2. Chibelushi, C. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Text Mining for Meeting Transcript Analysis to Extract Key Decision Elements, ICDMA_13 (The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications).
  3. Levitt, J. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Indicators for the effectiveness of the Web of Science subject categories: A case study of Library and Information Science. STI conference, Vienna, September 2008.
  4. Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2008). Selling e-campaign behaviors like e-commerce products, World Social Marketing Conference.
  5. Cugelman, B., Thelwall M., & Dawes P. (2007). Can brotherhood be sold like soap…Online? An online social marketing and advocacy pilot study. Persuasive 07 (Harvard, US).
  6. Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2007). University-Industry-Government relationships manifested as MSN reciprocal links: Re-examining a case study of the UK West Midlands automobile industry, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 731-735).
  7. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 378-386).
  8. Levitt, J. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Atypical citation patterns in the twenty most highly cited documents in Library and Information Science, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 485-488).
  9. Zuccala, A., Thelwall, M. (2006). LexiURL Web link analysis for digital libraries. 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 371-371.
  10. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines. Science and Technology Indicators conference, Leuven, Belgium.
  11. 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
  12. Smith, A. & Thelwall, M. (2005). Web links as an indicator of research output: a comparison of NZ Tertiary Institution links with the Performance Based Research Funding assessment, ISSI 2005.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2005). What can university-to-government web links tell us about a university’s research productivity and the collaborations between universities and government?, ISSI 2005, accepted for a short paper.
  16. 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.
  17. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Patterns of international and national Web inlinks to US university departments: A Webometric analysis of disciplinary specificity. Proceedings of ISSI 2003, Dailan University of Technology Press, Dailan, China, pp. 312-320.
  18. Tang, R. and Thelwall, M. (2002). Exploring the pattern of links between Chinese university Web sites, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 39 (ASIST 2002), pp. 417-424.
  19. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web link counts correlate with ISI Impact Factors: evidence from two disciplines, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 39 (ASIST 2002), pp. 436-443.
  20. 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.
  21. Smith, A. and Thelwall, M. (2001), Web Impact Factors and University research links, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics vol. 2, Sydney Australia,16-20 July, pp. 657-664
  22. 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.
  23. Thelwall, M. (1998). The Advantages of Randomly generated computer assisted assessment, Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough June 1998.
  24. 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.
  25. Thelwall, M. (1996). A Computer Based Assessment Project, Proceedings of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Conference July 1996.
 

Other conference papers, posters and workshops

  1. Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2007). Online interaction and offline behavioural change-a research project ICS Postgraduate Conference: Communication Technologies of Empowerment, Leeds, 20 April 2007.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2007, to appear). Web science: What can information science contribute? ISSI Newsletter.
  3. Angus, E., Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2007). University groups in Flickr: Tagging for purpose or pleasure? Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 824-825).
  4. Levitt, J. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Two new h-index indicators: Hirsch Frequencies and the Normalised Hirsch Index, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 876-877).
  5. Thelwall, M. (2006). Curiosities or war: What captures the public attention? Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik 06. http://www.gal-ev.de/jahrestagung-2006.html
  6. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2006). Webometrics for Social Science and Humanities Researchers, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
  7. Rall, D. Thelwall, M. & Boyd, W. (2006). Disciplinary diasporas or goldrush? Tracking scholarly migration to internet studies and research AoIR 7.0 September 27-30, 2006, Brisbane, Australia. http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=602&cf=5
  8. Barjak, F. & Thelwall, M. (2006). A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life sciences research teams, Indicators on Science, Technology and Innovation. History and new Perspectives, Lugano, Switzerland. http://www.ticinoricerca.ch/conference/abstracts/Barjak_Thelwall_abstract.pdf#search=%22%22Simon%20Robinson%22%20netreact%22 http://www.ticinoricerca.ch/conference/presentations/barjak.pdf
  9. Fry, J. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Using domain analysis and organisational theory to understand e-social science sustainability. Second International Conference on e-Social Science, 28-30 June 2006, Manchester, UK.
    158. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M., (2006). Google Scholar citations and Google Web/URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis. COLLNET 2006 Proceedings, 234-247.
  10. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/1518.pdf
  11. Barjak, F., Li, X, & Thelwall, M. (2005). Which factors explain the web impact of scientists’ personal home pages? Presentation at Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations, http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=117&cf=3
  12. T helwall, M. & Payne, N. (2005). Link analysis: An informetric technique, submitted to ISSI, accepted for a poster.
  13. Thelwall, M. & Wouters, P. (2005). The Internet as an indirect source for social science research, submitted to NCeSS, 31 Jan 05, accepted as poster, 16 March 2005.
  14. Thelwall, M. (2004). Web citation analysis. Emerald Link Learning Curve, http://fiordiliji.emeraldinsight.com/vl=6209974/cl=286/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/info/curves.htm.
  15. 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.
  16. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Scholarly Communication on the Web. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran.
  17. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2004).Motivations for linking to open access LIS e-articles: Exploring characteristics of sources of web citation. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran.
  18. Thelwall, M. (2004). Using search engines and web crawlers in social science research, RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology (Amsterdam, August 16-20).
  19. Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis: Merton & Garfield vs. Malinowski & MacRoberts. IR 5.0 (19-22nd September, Brighton).
  20. Thelwall, M. (2003). Measuring scholarly communication on the Web. Bibliometric Analysis in Science and Research: Applications, Benefits and Limitations. Germany: Forschungszentrum (Research Centre) Jülich, pp.77-85.
  21. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes. ASIST SIG III session: Sharing and accessing Internet resources across barriers of nation, language, and collection
  22. Thelwall, M. (2003). Patterns and problems of cross-border collaboration: the social impact of the hybrid Web. Abstracts of the Conference of the European Sociological Association, Murcia, (Spain), September 23-26, pp327-328.
  23. Thelwall, M. (2003). An Overview of Link Analysis Techniques for Academic Web Sites. ISSI 2003.
  24. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Do academic Web pages in Western Europe attract more links if they are in English?, ISSI 2003.
  25. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2002). The Relationship Between the Links/Web Impact Factors of Computer Science Departments in UK and Their RAE (Reasearch Assessment Exercise) Ranking in 2001. Seventh International S&T Indicators Conference from 25 to 28 September 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
  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. Thelwall, M. (2002). Analysing the link structure of the web sites of national university systems. EASST 2002 York July 2002.
  29. Chu, H., He, S. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Library and Information Science Schools in Canada and USA: A Webometric Perspective. ALISE 2002, Jan 15-18 Louisiana, USA.
  30. 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 .
  31. Thelwall, M. (2000), Linking SPC data via the Internet, workshop at PCI 2000, Strathclyde University.
  32. Thelwall, M. (2000), Implications of Search Engine Coverage on the Viability of commercial websites, poster session in ICEIS 2000, 14/4/00, Staffordshire University.
  33. 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.
  34. Thelwall, M. (1999), Randomly generated motivation from Maths and Stats Tests, Maths and Stats, 10(1), 13-16. (Magazine article)
  35. Thelwall, M. (1998), A Virtual Reality Machine for Vector Geometry, Alt-C 98 poster/demonstration, University of Oxford.
  36. Thelwall, M. (1998), The Virtual Campus - Paradigm or Metaphor?, Alt-C 98, University of Oxford.
  37. Thelwall, M. (1997), Computer Based Assessment for Numeracy, Electronic Learning conference, University of Wolverhampton.
  38. Thelwall, M. (1997), Computer Based Assessment for Numeracy, Skills Across the Curriculum conference, University of Wolverhampton.
  39. Thelwall, M. (1989), Triangular subalgebras of AF algebras, Operator Theory Conference, University of Cork.
 

Editorial and Reviewing

 

Qualifications

 

Research Group

MPhil/PhD Students

Former PhD Students

PhD Examining (12)

 

Funding Received

 

Awards and recognition

 

Current and Past Professional Memberships

 

Teaching

Maths and Stats: First year courses in Quantitative Methods, Pure Maths and Statistics. Second year courses in Mathematical Methods and Operational Research. Third year courses in Operational Research and Statistics. Project supervision.

Computing: Introduction to Information Technology, Constructing Interactive Software (Visual Basic), Professional skills, Internet Short Courses, second and third year web computing courses, MSc Web and Research Methods courses, MSc and degree project supervision.

Distance Learning Development: Author of the Broadnet multimedia module 'Introduction to Word' and co-author of 'Introduction to the Internet' and 'Ten Steps to Excel'. Co-author of the module ‘Introduction to the Internet’ and author of the module ‘Introduction to JavaScript’ for Internet/Distance learning delivery with Rural Broadnet.

Computing Skills

 

Not to be confused with: Michael Thelwell, Michael Thelwall (author), Mike Thellwall (typo). Guitar player in the current and former local bands: Hedley's Bull Ahhh (abbreviate), Guns 'n' Poses, Calm the Truck Down, Five Sluts, Adverse Camber, Strained Mercy Quality (SMC), Desperately Unhappy Dude.