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.
Advisor, InfluenceFinder: Finding influential and relevant conversations for online marketers and SearchDNA.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2009). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.60(2), 219-231
Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.[an analysis of words used in MySpace comments]
Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of Alternative Document Models. ASLIB Proceedings., 61(1), 101-116.
Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.
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
Prabowo, R, & Thelwall, M. (2008). Finding and tracking subjects in a debate over time, Journal of Informetrics, 2(2), 107-127
Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics.
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.
Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Do academic link types change over time?, Journal of Documentation, 64(5), 707-720.
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.
Thelwall, M. & Zuccala, A. (2008). A university-centred European Union link analysis, Scientometrics, 75(3), 407-420.
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
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.
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.
Park, H. W. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Web linkage pattern and social structure using politicians’ websites in South Korea. Quality & Quantity, 42(6), 687-697.
Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly, 78(4), 419-435.
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.
Thelwall, M., & Ruschenburg, T. (2006). Webometrie, Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8), 401-406.
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
.
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.
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.
Thelwall, M., Barjak, F. & Kretchmer, H. (2006). Web links and gender in science: An exploratory analysis. Scientometrics, 67(3), 373-383.
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
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
Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2005). Mathematical models for academic Webs: Linear relationship or non-linear power law? Information Processing & Management,
41(6), 1495-1510.
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.
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.
Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities. Information Processing & Management, 41(2), 347-359.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence: Finding relationships in university webs. Communications of the ACM, 48(7), 93-96.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2004). Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research. Research Evaluation, 13(1), 63-68.
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.
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.
Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Disciplinary differences in US academic departmental web site interlinking, Library & Information Science Research, 25(4), 437-458.
Thelwall, M., Harries, G., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Why do web sites from different academic subjects interlink? Journal of Information Science, 29(6), 445-463.
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.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2003). Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic web sites, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 11-20.
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.
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.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2001). A web crawler design for data mining, Journal of Information Science 27(5), 319-325.
Thelwall, M. (2001). Understanding and assessment methodology in an introductory statistics course, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 20(3), 251-264.
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
Thelwall, M. (2000). Effective web sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159.
Thelwall, M. (2000). Commercial web sites: Lost in cyberspace?, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 10(2), 150-159.
Thelwall, M. (2000). Computer Based Assessment: A versatile educational tool. Journal of Computers and Education, 34, 37-49.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2009). Bibliometrics to Webometrics, In: A. Gilchrist, Information science in transition, London: Facet Publishing (pp. 347-376).
Thelwall, M. (2009). Visualization in e-Social Science. In. N. Jankowski (Ed.). E-Research: Transformation in scholarly practice. New York: Routledge (p. 163-181).
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
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.
Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, 81-135.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Thelwall, M. (2008). Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Wang, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of data warehousing and mining 2nd Edition, Idea Group Inc.
Thelwall, M. (2008). Link Analysis. The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Volume VI. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA), 2715-2716.
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
Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Wang, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Data warehousing and mining, Idea Group Inc.
Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis, Encyclopedia of Virtual communities and Technologies, Idea Group Inc.
Thelwall, M. (2005). Webometrics. In: Drake, M. A. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.
Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2009). Communication-based influence components model. Persuasive 09.
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).
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.
Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2008). Selling e-campaign behaviors like e-commerce products, World Social Marketing Conference.
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).
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).
Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 378-386).
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).
Zuccala, A., Thelwall, M. (2006). LexiURL Web link analysis for digital libraries. 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 371-371.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thelwall, M. (1998). The Advantages of Randomly generated computer assisted assessment, Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough June 1998.
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.
Thelwall, M. (1996). A Computer Based Assessment Project, Proceedings of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Conference July 1996.
Other conference papers, posters and workshops
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.
Thelwall, M. (2007, to appear). Web science: What can information science contribute? ISSI Newsletter.
Angus, E., Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2007). University groups in Flickr: Tagging for purpose or pleasure? Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 824-825).
Levitt, J. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Two new h-index indicators: Hirsch Frequencies and the Normalised Hirsch Index, Proceedings of ISSI2007 Madrid (pp. 876-877).
Thelwall, M. (2006). Curiosities or war: What captures the public attention? Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik 06. http://www.gal-ev.de/jahrestagung-2006.html
Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2006). Webometrics for Social Science and Humanities Researchers, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
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
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
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.
Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/1518.pdf
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
T helwall, M. & Payne, N. (2005). Link analysis: An informetric technique, submitted to ISSI, accepted for a poster.
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.
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.
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.
Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Scholarly Communication on the Web. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran.
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.
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).
Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis: Merton & Garfield vs. Malinowski & MacRoberts. IR 5.0 (19-22nd September, Brighton).
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.
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
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.
Thelwall, M. (2003). An Overview of Link Analysis Techniques for Academic Web Sites. ISSI 2003.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Thelwall, M. (2002). Analysing the link structure of the web sites of national university systems. EASST 2002 York July 2002.
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.
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 .
Thelwall, M. (2000), Linking SPC data via the Internet, workshop at PCI 2000, Strathclyde University.
Thelwall, M. (2000), Implications of Search Engine Coverage on the Viability of commercial websites, poster session in ICEIS 2000, 14/4/00, Staffordshire University.
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.
Thelwall, M. (1999), Randomly generated motivation from Maths and Stats Tests, Maths and Stats, 10(1), 13-16. (Magazine article)
Thelwall, M. (1998), A Virtual Reality Machine for Vector Geometry, Alt-C 98 poster/demonstration, University of Oxford.
Thelwall, M. (1998), The Virtual Campus - Paradigm or Metaphor?, Alt-C 98, University of Oxford.
Thelwall, M. (1997), Computer Based Assessment for Numeracy, Electronic Learning conference, University of Wolverhampton.
Thelwall, M. (1997), Computer Based Assessment for Numeracy, Skills Across the Curriculum conference, University of Wolverhampton.
Thelwall, M. (1989), Triangular subalgebras of AF algebras, Operator Theory Conference, University of Cork.
Editorial and Reviewing
Member of the editorial boards of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; Online Information Review; Cybermetrics, Library and Information Science Research; Journal of Information Science, Journal of Informetrics, Scientometrics.
Member of the editorial boards of the book series International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (Facet Publishing) and
Information Science and Knowledge Management (Kluwer).
Guest editor for a Webometrics special issue of the
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Reviews completed for: Information and Software Technology; Journal of
Documentation; Cybermetrics; Journal of Information Science; Scientometrics; Information Processing & Management; Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; International Information and Library Review;
Journal of Academic Librarianship; Computers & Education.
Reviewer for ITI 2002 Information Technology Interfaces, Dubrovnik 2002,
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 2003, SIGIR 2004.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) I Mathematics, Lancaster University 1986
Emma Angus, Image tagging: how do motivations to tag compare with tagging practices? Director of studies
Brian Cugelman, Online Social Marketing, Director of studies.
Stacey Greenaway, Games to generate video tags. Director of studies
Former PhD Students
Dr Brian Cugelman, Online social marketing: Website factors in behavioural change. 2007-2010: Director of studies.
Dr Kim Holmberg, Webometric network analysis: Mapping cooperation and geopolitical connections between local government administration on the web. Åbo Akademi University, Finland. External PhD advisor.
Dr Jonathan Levitt, Factors affecting citation levels: An international multidisciplinary analysis. 2006-2008: Director of studies.
Dr David Stuart, Online university-industry-government relationships. 2004-2007: Director of studies.
Dr Nigel Payne, Longitudinal studies of academic web links. 2004-2007: Director of studies.
Dr Kayvan Kousha. University of Tehran. External PhD supervisor; Professor Abbas Horri was the main supervisor.
Dr Lennart
Björneborn, Small world phenomena on the Web, 2002-2003: Second
supervisor (project supervisor) at the Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. Main supervisor: Professor Peter
Ingwersen. Winner of the 2004 ASIST Proquest/UMI Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Dr Xuemei Li, The development of methodologies to investigate web interlinking of academic departments: the case of university computer science departments in Europe, 2001-2005: Director of studies.
PhD Examining (12)
5 Information Science PhDs
4 Computer Science PhDs
2 Computational Linguistics PhDs
1 Social Science (sociology/politics) PhD
Funding Received
1996 Teaching and Learning Pilot Project (University of Wolverhampton)
1997 Teaching and Learning Commission to design a numeracy assessment tool (University of Wolverhampton)
2000 Teaching and Learning Innovations Project, with Ray Binns (University of Wolverhampton)
2000 Maths project as part of the Midland Mathematics Consortium
2000 LTSN Maths and Stats bid, as part of the Midland Mathematics Consortium
2006 EU funded NetReAct project consortium member.
2007 EU funded RESCAR project consortium member.
2008 NESTA research contract
2009 EU funded CyberEmotions project consortium member.
Awards and recognition
Online Information Review's Outstanding Paper award for, ‘Can the Web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research?’
‘Citation of Excellence’ 2004 awarded to “Can Google’s PageRank be used to find the most important academic web pages?” for being one of the top 50 out of 15,000 Emerald-reviewed management articles in 2003.
‘Highly Commended’ for papers published in ASLIB/Emerald publications in 2002 awarded to: “Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking”. http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=1410
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Operational Research Society
American Society for Information Science & Technology
ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Institute of Learning and Teaching
London Mathematical Society
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
Experienced in web site design and writing programs in C, VB.Net, Perl, JavaScript, ASP and Pascal.
Some knowledge and/or programming experience in a wide range of other languages and operating systems including Java, C++, Lisp, Toolbook, Maple, VBA, SQL, Pro*C for Oracle, Windows & UNIX.
Experienced in developing interactive Internet applications and resources using HTML, CGI, VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language), Perl and JavaScript.
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.
