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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.
