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ACTIVITIES
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Visit by Prof Mike Thelwall
Schedule for the Visit: Prof Mike Thelwall
Date: 18 Jan 2018 (Thursday)
Activity
10.00am -10.30am: Meeting with faculty's management (Courtesy Call) - BMD
10.45 am-11.45am: Research talk/knowledge sharing session (presentation) in the faculty
Title: Almetrics: measuring impact in scholarly communication - The Cube
12.00pm - 2.00pm: Research discussion & lunch with department’s members
Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science and leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the
University of Wolverhampton, which he joined in 1989. He is also Docent at the Department of Information Studies
at Åbo Akademi University, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His PhD was in Pure
Mathematics from the University of Lancaster. His current research field includes identifying and analysing web
phenomena using quantitative-led research methods, including altmetrics and sentiment analysis, and has
pioneered an information science approach to link analysis. Mike has developed a wide range of tools for gathering
and analysing web data, including hyperlink analysis, sentiment analysis and content analysis for Twitter, YouTube,
MySpace, blogs and the web in general. His 400+ publications include 244 refereed journal articles and two books,
including Introduction to Webometrics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Association for Information
Science and Technology and sits on three other editorial boards.
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SYMPOSIUM ON MALAYSIAN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION PADA 6 FEBRUARI 2018
Anjuran: Fakulti Sains Komputer Dan Teknologi Maklumat (Fsktm), Universiti Malaya & Pusat Sitasi Malaysia (Psm),
Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi
Simposium ini membolehkan komuniti dan pihak berkepentingan dalammemperkasakan sistem komunikasi ilmiah
serta menggalakkan ahli akademik dan para penyelidik untuk menulis serta menerbitkan hasil penyelidikan mereka
di dalam jurnal ilmiah yang di indeks oleh pangkalan data sitasi antarabangsa seperti Web of Science dan Scopus.
Bengkel sepanjang hari ini, yang ditunjangi oleh wakil dari pihak berkepentingan dan pakar ilmiah, telah
dikemaskini sebagai satu modul perbincangan mengenai isu-isu penting dan perkongsian maklumat serta
pengetahuan berkenaan
komunikasi dan penerbitan ilmiah.
