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.

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. Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., Paltoglou, G. Cai, D., & Kappas, A. (in press). Sentiment strength detection in short informal text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  2. Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M. & Dawes, P. (in press). The psychology of online behavioural influence interventions: a meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
  3. Wilkinson, D. & Thelwall, M. (in press). Researching personal information on the public Web: Methods and ethics, Social Science Computer Review.
  4. Wilkinson, D. & Thelwall, M. (in press). Social network site changes over time: The case of MySpace. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. (please email for a copy)
  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. 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.
  7. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. & Rezaie, S. (2010). Can the impact of scholarly images be assessed online?  An exploratory study using image identification technology, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(9), 1734–1744.
  8. Gobron, S., Ahn, J., Paltoglou, G., Thelwall, M. & Thalmann, D. (2010). From sentence to emotion: A real-time three-dimensional graphics metaphor of emotions extracted from text. The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics, 26(6-8), 505-519.
  9. Thelwall, M., Klitkou, A., Verbeek, A., Stuart, D. & Vincent, C. (2010). Policy-relevant webometrics for individual scientific fields, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7) 1464-1475.
  10. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2010). Does the higher citation of collaborative research differ from region to region? A case study of economics, Scientometrics., 85(1), 171-183.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Koteyko, N. Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (2010). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation, Science Communication, 32(1), 25-54.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., (2009). Sentiment analysis: A combined approach, Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 143-157.
  18. 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. 
  19. Thelwall, M. (2009). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.60(2), 219-231.
  20. Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.[an analysis of words used in MySpace comments]
  21. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of Alternative Document Models. ASLIB Proceedings., 61(1), 101-116.
  22. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.
  23. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics, 79(1), 157-169.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Thelwall, M. (2008). No place for news in social networking web sites? Online Information Review, 32(6), 726-744.
  27. 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.
  28. Thelwall, M. (2008). How are social network sites embedded in the web? An exploratory link analysis. Cybermetrics. 12(1), paper 1.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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]
  32. 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
  33. Prabowo, R, & Thelwall, M. (2008). Finding and tracking subjects in a debate over time, Journal of Informetrics, 2(2), 107-127
  34. 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
  35. Thelwall, M. (2008). Bibliometrics to Webometrics, Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 605-621. [This paper was accepted for publication in Journal of Information Science and the final (edited, revised and typeset), definitive version of this paper was published in 2008 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © SAGE Publications Ltd]
  36. 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.
  37. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Do academic link types change over time?, Journal of Documentation, 64(5), 707-720.
  38. Angus, E., Thelwall, M., & Stuart D. (2008). General patterns of tag usage among university groups in Flickr, Online Information Review, 32(1), 89-101.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. Thelwall, M. & Zuccala, A. (2008). A university-centred European Union link analysis, Scientometrics, 75(3), 407-420.
  42. Thelwall, M., Byrne, A. & Goody, M. (2007). Which types of news story attract bloggers? Information Research 12(4).
  43. 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]
  44. 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.
  45. 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
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. Park, H. W. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Web linkage pattern and social structure using politicians’ websites in South Korea. Quality & Quantity, 42(6), 687-697.
  49. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly, 78(4), 419-435.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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
  53. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). The web impact of open access social science research. Library and Information Science Research. 29(4), 495-507.
  54. 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.
  55. Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D. (2007). RUOK? Communication technologies blogged during a crisis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(9).
  56. Thelwall, M. & Hasler, L. (2007). Blog search engines. Online Information Review, 31(4), 467-479.
  57. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M. & Alexandrov, M. (2007). Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. Journal of Informetrics, 1(2), 131-144.
  58. 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]
  59. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2007). A longitudinal study of academic webs: Growth and stabilisation, Scientometrics, 71(3), 523-539
  60. 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.
  61. Stuart, D., Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2007). UK academic web links and collaboration – an exploratory study. Journal of Information Science, 33(2), 231-246.
  62. Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. Thelwall, M., & Ruschenburg, T. (2006). Webometrie, Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8), 401-406.
  66. 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 .
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. Thelwall, M., Barjak, F. & Kretchmer, H. (2006). Web links and gender in science: An exploratory analysis. Scientometrics, 67(3), 373-383.
  75. 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
  76. 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
  77. 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.
  78. Thelwall, M. (2005). Creating and using web corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 10(4), 517-541.
  79. Park, H.W., Thelwall, M. & Kluver, R. (2005). Political hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical indicators of ideology and content, Sociological Research Online, 10(3).
  80. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523.
  81. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2005). Mathematical models for academic Webs: Linear relationship or non-linear power law? Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1495-1510.
  82. 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.
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities. Information Processing & Management, 41(2), 347-359.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence: Finding relationships in university webs. Communications of the ACM, 48(7), 93-96.
  89. 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.
  90. Thelwall, M. (2004). Will digital libraries generate a new need for multi-disciplinary research skills? LIBRES, 14(2).
  91. 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.
  92. Kretschmer, H. & Thelwall, M. (2004). The way from librametry to webometrics. Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics, 1(1), 1-7.
  93. Thelwall, M. (2004). Can the web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research? Online Information Review, 28(2), 120-130.
  94. Thelwall, M. (2004). Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research. Research Evaluation, 13(1), 63-68.
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. 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.
  98. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes, Information Processing & Management, 40(4), 693-707.
  99. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2004). Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks. Information Processing & Management, 40(3), 515-526.
  100. 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.
  101. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L (2004). New versions of PageRank employing alternative Web document models, ASLIB Proceedings, 56(1), 24-33.
  102. 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.
  103. 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.
  104. Wilkinson, D., Thelwall, M. & Li, X. (2003). Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use. Social Science Computer Review, 21(3), 340-351.
  105. 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).
  106. Thelwall, M., & Aguillo, I. (2003). La salud de las Web universitarias españolas, Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 26(3), 291-305.
  107. 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.
  108. Thelwall, M. (2003). A free database of university Web links: Data collection issues. Cybermetrics, 6.
  109. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2003). Disciplinary differences in academic web presence – A statistical study of the UK. Libri, 53(4), 242-253.
  110. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Disciplinary differences in US academic departmental web site interlinking, Library & Information Science Research, 25(4), 437-458.
  111. Thelwall, M. (2003). A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the web, Journal of Documentation, 59(4), 410-429.
  112. Thelwall, M., Harries, G., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Why do web sites from different academic subjects interlink? Journal of Information Science, 29(6), 445-463.
  113. 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.
  114. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analyses of the world wide web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 8(4).
  115. 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.
  116. 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.
  117. Thelwall, M. (2003). Can Google’s PageRank be used to find the most important academic web pages? Journal of Documentation, 59(2), 205-217.
  118. 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.
  119. Thelwall, M., Tang, R. & Price, E. (2003). Linguistic patterns of academic web use in Western Europe, Scientometrics, 56(3), 417-432.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. Thelwall, M. (2003). Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic web sites, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 11-20.
  123. Thelwall, M. (2002). Research dissemination and invocation on the web. Online Information Review 26(6), 413-420.
  124. Thelwall, M. & Smith, A. (2002). A study of the interlinking between Asia-Pacific university web sites, Scientometrics, 55(3), 335-348.
  125. Thelwall, M. (2002). A research and institutional size based model for national university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(6), 683-694.
  126. 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.
  127. Thelwall, M. (2002). Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation, 58(5), 563-574.
  128. 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.
  129. Thelwall, M. (2002). In praise of Google: finding law journal web sites, Online Information Review, 26(4), 271-272.
  130. Smith, A. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factors for Australasian universities, Scientometrics, 54(1-2), 363-380.
  131. Thelwall, M. (2002). Methodologies for crawler based web surveys, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 12(2), 124-138.
  132. Thelwall, M. (2002). Subject gateway sites and search engine ranking, Online Information Review, 26(2), 101-107.
  133. 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.
  134. Thelwall, M. (2002). Sources of links for WIF calculations, Journal of Documentation 58(1) 60-72.
  135. Thelwall, M. (2002). An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university web sites, ASLIB Proceedings, 54(2), 118-126.
  136. 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.
  137. Thelwall, M. (2001). Extracting macroscopic information from web links, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(13), 1157-1168.
  138. Thelwall, M. (2001). Exploring the link structure of the web with network diagrams, Journal of Information Science, 27(6) 393-402.
  139. 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.
  140. Thelwall, M. (2001). A web crawler design for data mining, Journal of Information Science 27(5), 319-325.
  141. Thelwall, M. (2001). Understanding and assessment methodology in an introductory statistics course, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 20(3), 251-264.
  142. Thelwall, M. (2001). The responsiveness of search engine indexes, Cybermetrics, 5(1).
  143. Thelwall, M. (2001). Web log file analysis: Backlinks and queries, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(6), 217-223.
  144. Thelwall, M. (2001). Commercial web site links, Internet Research, 11(2), 114-124.
  145. Thelwall, M. (2001). Results from a Web Impact Factor crawler, Journal of Documentation, 57(2), 177-191.
  146. 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
  147. Thelwall, M. (2000). Effective web sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159.
  148. Thelwall, M. (2000). Web Impact Factors and search engine coverage, Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 185-189.
  149. Thelwall, M. (2000). Commercial web sites: Lost in cyberspace? Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 10(2), 150-159.
  150. Thelwall, M. (2000). Computer Based Assessment: A versatile educational tool. Journal of Computers and Education, 34, 37-49.
  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. & Wilkinson, D. (2010). Blog Issue Analysis: An exploratory study of issue-related blogging. In: Birger Larsen, Jesper W. Schneider, Fredrik Åström (Eds), The Janusz Faced Scholar: A festschrift in honour of Peter Ingwersen, ISSI (pp. 203-218).
  2. Thelwall, M. (2009). Social network sites: Users and uses. In: M. Zelkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Computers 76. Amsterdam: Elsevier (pp. 19-73). [Please email for a copy]
  3. 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).
  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. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, 81-135.

Encyclopedia articles

  1. Thelwall, M. (2008). Link Analysis. The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Volume VI. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA), 2715-2716.
  2. 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. and Webometrics book web site.
  2. Thelwall, M. (2004). Link analysis: An information science approach. San Diego: Academic Press.
 

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