Communication-based influence components model (2009)
Cugelman, Brian, Thelwall, Mike, Dawes, Philip L.
This paper discusses problems faced by planners of real-world online behavioural change interventions who must select behavioural change frameworks from a variety of competing theories and...
Dimensions of web site credibility and their relation to active trust and behavioural impact (2009)
Cugelman, Brian, Thelwall, Mike, Dawes, Philip L.
This paper discusses two trends that threaten to undermine the effectiveness of online social marketing interventions: growing mistrust and competition. As a solution, this paper examines the...
A publicly accessible database of UK university website links and a discussion of the need for
Mike Thelwall, Liwen Vaughan, Lennart Bjorneborn
Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the realization that methods originally designed for bib-liometric analysis of scientific journal article citation patterns...
Alastair G. Smith, Mike Thelwall
Data from a crawl of New Zealand Universities is used to study links between the institutions, and the extent to which web based measures correlate with a measure of research performance. The...
Word usage is of interest to linguists for its own sake as well as to social scientists and others seeking to track the spread of ideas, for example in public debates over political decisions. The...
David Wilkinson, Gareth Harries, Mike Thelwall, Liz Price
Motivations for academic web site interlinking: evidence for the Web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly communication
Longitudinal trends in academic web links (2008)
Longitudinal studies of web change are needed to assess the stability of webometric statistics and this paper forms part of an on-going longitudinal study of three national academic web spaces. It...
Page 1 Effective Web Sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises 1 (2008)
In the UK millions are now online and many are prepared to use the Internet to make and influence purchasing decisions. Businesses should, therefore, consider whether the Internet could provide them...
Han Woo Park, Mike Thelwall, Downloaded From, New Media, Mike Thelwall
communication in the age of globalization
Commercial web site links (2008)
Every hyperlink pointing at a web site is a potential source of new visitors, especially one near the top of a results page from a popular search engine. The order of the links in a search results...
REVIEW ARTICLE Exploiting Hyperlinks to Study Academic Web Use (2008)
David Wilkinson, Mike Thelwall, Xuemei Li, David Wilkinson, Mike Thelwall, Xuemei Li
Hyperlinks have attracted a lot of attention over the past 7 years, from computer scientists, information scientists, physicists, and sociologists, all using them for different purposes. In this...
A University-Centred European Union Link Analysis 1 (2008)
University web sites play an important role in facilitating a wide range of types of communication. This paper reports an analysis of international academic linking in Europe, with particular...
Custom Interfaces for Advanced Queries in Search Engines 1 (2008)
Mike Thelwall, Ray Binns, Gareth Harries, Liz Price
Those seeking information from the Internet often start from a search engine, using either its organised directory structure or its text query facility. In response to the difficulty in identifying...
Can Google's PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages (2008)
Google’s PageRank is an influential algorithm that uses a model of Web use that is dominated by its link structure in order to rank pages by their estimated value to the Web community. This paper...
Nigel Payne, Mike Thelwall, Nigel Payne, Mike Thelwall
Abstract. Longitudinal studies of web change are needed to assess the stability of webometric statistics and this paper forms part of an on-going longitudinal study of three national academic web...
Text in social networking Web sites: A word frequency analysis of Live Spaces (2008)
Mike Thelwall; University Of Wolverhampton
Social networking sites are owned by a wide section of society and seem to dominate Web usage. Despite much research into this phenomenon, little systematic data is available. This article partially...
Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK (2008)
The Web has become an important tool for scholars to publicise their activities and disseminate their findings. In the information age, those who do not use it risk being bypassed. In this paper we...
1 / 15 Can the Web Give Useful Information about Commercial Uses of Scientific Research? (2008)
Invocations of pure and applied science journals in the Web were analysed, focussing on commercial sites, in order to assess whether the Web can yield useful information about university-industry...
Thelwall 1 Graph Structure in Three National Academic Webs: (2008)
Power Laws Anomalies, Mike Thelwall, David Wilkinson
The graph structures of three national university publicly indexable webs from
Can Google's PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages (2008)
Google’s PageRank is an influential algorithm that uses a model of Web use that is dominated by its link structure in order to rank pages by their estimated value to the Web community. This paper...
Mike Thelwall, Liwen Vaughan, Viv Cothey, Xuemei Li, Alastair G. Smith
It is known that use of the Web by academic researchers is discipline-dependent and highly variable. Moreover, the Web is increasingly central for sharing information, disseminating results and...
Thelwall 1 Text Characteristics of English Language University Web Sites (2008)
The nature of the contents of academic Web sites is of direct relevance to the new field of scientific Web intelligence, and for search engine and topic-specific crawler designers. We analyze word...
2002c). In praise of Google: finding law journal Web sites (2008)
Google is a highly regarded and widely used search engine, particularly in academia. In this short note we comment on its remarkable ability to find journal web sites, using a case study of law....
Special Edition Accepted for Publication By the Journal of Information Science: (2008)
Bibliometrics To Webometrics, Mike Thelwall
Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core of a number of...
An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university Web sites (2008)
Aggregates of links are of interest to information scientists in the same way as citation counts are: as potential sources of data from which new knowledge can be mined. The recent discovery of a...
Escher Staircases on the World Wide Web (2007)
Ronald Rousseau, Mike Thelwall
It is shown that Escher Staircases, i.e. cycles of four nodes in a graph with reciprocal links, form a basic structural element on the World Wide Web.
‘The limits of Web–based empowerment: Integrated water resource management case studies (2007)
Mike Thelwall, Adrian Barlow, Katie Vann
This article is an analysis of the limits of Web–based empowerment of the voiceless, leveraging from five Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) case studies, and motivated by several recent...
Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self (2007)
Previous literature within the postmodern movement typically finds the Internet to be a tool for surveillance and restriction. This is particularly identified in the personal homepages of academics,...
¿Qué tipos de noticias atraen a los blogeros? (2007)
Introducción. Se han aclamado a los Blogs como los transformadores potenciales de los valores del periodismo y las noticias. No obstante, a pesar de algunas noticias importantes gestadas en blogs,...
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Cugelman, Brian, Thelwall, Mike, Dawes, Philip L.
Having engaged one billion users by early 2006, the Internet is the world’s fastest-growing mass communications medium. As it permeates into countless lives across the planet, it offers social...
Webometrics in information science is currently dominated by link analysis and strongly influenced by citation analysis because it is typically applied to scientific documents. The WISER project was...
Kousha, Kayvan, Thelwall, Mike
In this paper we introduce a new data gathering method “Web/URL Citation” and use it and Google Scholar as a basis to compare traditional and Web-based citation patterns across multiple...
Thelwall, Mike, Hellsten, Iina
Introduction. We assess the extent to which published media timelines reflect contemporary electronic discussions of major media events, using the London Attacks of July 2005 as a case study. The...
Introduction. We assess the extent to which published media timelines reflect contemporary electronic discussions of major media events, using the London Attacks of July 2005 as a case study. The...
Are raw RSS feeds suitable for broad issue scanning? A science concern case study (2006)
Thelwall, Mike, Prabowo, Rudy, Fairclough, Ruth
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Web issue analysis: an integrated water resource management case study (2006)
Thelwall, Mike, Vann, Katie, Fairclough, Ruth
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Automated Web issue analysis: A nurse prescribing case study (2006)
Thelwall, Mike, Thelwall, Saheeda, Fairclough, Ruth
Web issue analysis, a new automated technique designed to rapidly give timely management intelligence about a topic from an automated large-scale analysis of relevant pages from the Web, is...
Word usage is of interest to linguists for its own sake as well as to social scientists and others who seek to track the spread of ideas, for example, in public debates over political decisions. The...
Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework (2006)
Link analysis in various forms is now an established technique in many different subjects, reflecting the perceived importance of links and of the Web. A critical but very difficult issue is how to...
Webometrics in information science is currently dominated by link analysis and strongly influenced by citation analysis because it is typically applied to scientific documents. The WISER project was...
Kousha, Kayvan, Thelwall, Mike
In this paper we introduce a new data gathering method “Web/URL Citation” and use it and Google Scholar as a basis to compare traditional and Web-based citation patterns across multiple...
Web issue analysis: An Integrated Water Resource Management case study (2006)
Mike Thelwall, Ruth Fairclough
In this paper web issue analysis is introduced as a new technique to investigate an issue as reflected on the web. The issue chosen, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), is a United...
A comparison of feature selection methods for an evolving RSS feed corpus (2006)
Previous researchers have attempted to detect significant topics in news stories and blogs through the use of word frequency-based methods applied to RSS feeds. In this paper, the three statistical...
Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework (2006)
Link analysis in various forms is now an established technique in many different subjects, reflecting the perceived importance of links and that of the web. A critical but very difficult issue is how...
Hyo Kim, Han Woo Park, Mike Thelwall, Mike Thelwall
Citations (this article cites 24 articles hosted on the
David Stuart, Mike Thelwall, Gareth Harries, David Stuart, Mike Thelwall, Gareth Harries
UK academic web links and collaboration – an exploratory study
Political Hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical Indicators of Ideology and Content (2005)
Park, Han Woo, Thelwall, Mike, Kluver, Randolph
As the Internet has become a more important source of information for citizens and consumers, politicians in a number of nations have employed the Web as a tool to facilitate contact with...
The Limits of Web-Based Empowerment: Integrated Water-Resource Management Case Studies (2005)
Thelwall, Mike, Barlow, Adrian, Vann, Katie
"This article is an analysis of the limits of Web-based empowerment of the voiceless, leveraging from five Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) case studies, and motivated by several recent...
Brief Communication: The clustering power of low frequency words in academic Webs (2005)
The value of low frequency words for subject-based academic Web site clustering is assessed. A new technique is introduced to compare the relative clustering power of different vocabularies. The...
Scientific web intelligence: finding relationships in university webs (2005)
Methods for analyzing university Web sites demonstrate strong patterns that can reveal interconnections between research fields.
The clustering power of low frequency words in academic webs (2005)
The value of low frequency words for subject-based academic web site clustering is assessed. A new technique is introduced to compare the relative clustering power of different vocabularies. The...
Sylvan Katz (spru, Isidro Aguilo, Viv Cothey, Sylvan Katz, Hildrun Kretschmer, Mike Thelwall
(previous title: Best practice manual for Web data use in indicator research)
A Statistical Analysis of UK Academic Web Links (2004)
The analysis of web-based documents using quantitative techniques is a well-established area of research within the realm of information science. This paper builds on some of that work and presents...
A Statistical Analysis of UK Academic Web Links (2004)
The analysis of web-based documents using quantitative techniques is a well-established area of research within the realm of information science. This paper builds on some of that work and presents...
Can the Web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research? (2004)
Invocations of pure and applied science journals in the Web were analysed, focussing on commercial sites, in order to assess whether the Web can yield useful information about university-industry...
New versions of PageRank employing alternative Web document models (2004)
Thelwall, Mike, Vaughan, Liwen
Introduces several new versions of PageRank (the link based Web page ranking algorithm), based on an information science perspective on the concept of the Web document. Although the Web page is the...
Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping (2004)
Harries, Gareth, Wilkinson, David, Price, Liz, Fairclough, Ruth, Thelwall, Mike
Hyperlinks between academic web sites, like citations, can potentially be used to map disciplinary structures and identify evidence of connections between disciplines. In this paper we classified a...
Do the Web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly more online impact? (2004)
Thelwall, Mike, Harries, Gareth
The quality and impact of academic Web sites is of interest to many audiences, including the scholars who use them and Web educators who need to identify best practice. Several large-scale European...
Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks (2004)
Thelwall, Mike, Wilkinson, David
A common task in both Webmetrics and Web information retrieval is to identify a set of Web pages or sites that are similar in content. In this paper we assess the extent to which links, colinks and...
Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping (2004)
Gareth Harries, David Wilkinson, Liz Price, Ruth Fairclough, Mike Thelwall
Hyperlinks between academic web sites, like citations, can potentially be used to map disciplinary structures and identify evidence of connections between disciplines. In this paper we classified a...
Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes (2004)
Commercial search engines are now playing an increasingly important role in Web information dissemination and access. Of particular interest to business and national governments is whether the big...
New versions of PageRank employing alternative Web document models (2004)
We introduce several new versions of PageRank (the link based Web page ranking algorithm), based upon an information science perspective on the concept of the Web document. Although the Web page is...
A fair history of the Web? Examining country balance (2004)
The Internet Archive, an important initiative that maintains a record of the evolving Web, has the promise of being a key resource for historians and those who study the Web itself. The Archive’s...
Finding similar academic web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks (2004)
Mike Thelwall, David Wilkinson
A common task in both Webmetrics and Web information retrieval is to identify a set of Web pages or sites that are similar in content. In this paper we assess the extent to which links, colinks and...
A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the Web. (2003)
A layered approach for identifying communities in the Web is presented and explored by applying the flake exact community identification algorithm to the UK academic Web. Although community or topic...
Thelwall, Mike, Vaughan, Liwen, Cothey, Viv, Li, Xuemei, Smith, Alastair G.
The use of the Web by academic researchers is discipline-dependent and highly variable. It is increasingly central for sharing information, disseminating results and publicising research projects....
A Free Database of University Web Links: Data Collection Issues (2003)
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Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK (2003)
The Web has become an important tool for scholars to publicise their activities and disseminate their findings. In the information age, those who do not use it risk being bypassed. In this paper we...
Linguistic patterns of academic Web use in Western Europe (2003)
Thelwall, Mike, Tang, Rong, Price, Liz
A survey of linguistic dimensions of Web site hosting and interlinking of the universities of sixteen European countries is described. The results show that English is the dominant language both for...
Wilkinson, David, Harries, Gareth, Thelwall, Mike, Price, Liz
The need to understand authors’ motivations for creating links between university web sites is addressed by a survey of a random collection of 414 such links from the ac.uk domain. A classification...
Three target document range metrics for university web sites (2003)
Thelwall, Mike, Wilkinson, David
Three new metrics are introduced that measure the range of use of a university Web site by its peers through different heuristics for counting links targeted at its pages. All three give results that...
Graph structure in three national academic Webs: Power laws with anomalies (2003)
Thelwall, Mike, Wilkinson, David
The graph structures of three national university publicly indexable Webs from Australia, New Zealand, and the UK were analyzed. Strong scale-free regularities for page indegrees, outdegrees, and...
Scholarly use of the Web: What are the key inducers of links to journal web sites (2003)
Web links have been studied by information scientists for at least six years but it is only in the past two that clear evidence has emerged to show that counts of links to scholarly Web spaces...
Results from recent advances in link metrics have demonstrated that the hyperlink structure of national university systems can be strongly related to the research productivity of the individual...
A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the Web (2003)
A layered approach for identifying communities in the Web is presented and explored by applying the Flake Exact Community Identification Algorithm to the UK academic Web. Although community or topic...
Three target document range metrics for university Web sites (2003)
Mike Thelwall, David Wilkinson
Three new metrics are introduced that measure the range of use of a university Web site by its peers through different heuristics for counting links targeted at its pages. All three give results that...
Methods for reporting on the targets of links from national systems of university Web sites (2003)
Whilst hyperlinks within Web sites may be primarily created for navigation purposes, those between sites are a rich source of information about the content and use of the Web. As a result there is a...
Mike Thelwall, Gareth Harries, David Wilkinson, Mike Thelwall, Gareth Harries
Why do web sites from different academic subjects interlink?
A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the Web (2003)
A layered approach for identifying communities in the Web is presented and explored by applying the Flake Exact Community Identification Algorithm to the UK academic Web. Although community or topic...
The Academic Web Link Database Project (2002)
Thelwall, Mike, Binns, Ray, Harries, Gareth, Page-Kennedy, Teresa, Li, Xuemei, Musgrove, Peter, ...
This project was created in response to the need for research into web links: including web link mining, and the creation of link metrics. It is aimed at providing the raw data and software for...
A Free Database of University Web Links: Data Collection Issues. (2002)
This paper describes a free set of databases of the link structures of the university web sites from a selection of countries, as created by a specialist information science web crawler. With the...
A Free Database of University Web Links: Data Collection Issues. (2002)
This paper describes a free set of databases of the link structures of the university web sites from a selection of countries, as created by a specialist information science web crawler. With the...
Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking (2002)
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A comparison of sources of links for academic Web impact factor calculations (2002)
There has been much recent interest in extracting information from collections of Web links. One tool that has been used is Ingwersen¿s Web impact factor. It has been demonstrated that several...
A research and institutional size-based model for national university Web site interlinking (2002)
Web links are a phenomenon of interest to bibliometricians by analogy with citations, and to others because of their use in Web navigation and search engines. It is known that very few links on...
Research note: in praise of Google: finding law journal Web sites (2002)
Google is a highly regarded and widely used search engine, particularly in academia. In this short note we comment on its remarkable ability to find journal Web sites, using a case study of law.
Methodologies for crawler based Web surveys. (2002)
There have been many attempts to study the content of the Web, either through human or automatic agents. Describes five different previously used Web survey methodologies, each justifiable in its own...
An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university Web sites. (2002)
Aggregates of links are of interest to information scientists in the same way as citation counts are: as potential sources of data from which new knowledge can be mined. Builds on the recent...
Subject gateway sites and search engine ranking. (2002)
The spread of subject gateway sites can have an impact on the other major Web information retrieval tool: the commercial search engine. This is because gateway sites perturb the link structure of the...
Research dissemination and invocation on the Web (2002)
The importance of the Web as a new medium for disseminating and promoting scholarly research is discussed. Particular attention is paid to its potential to provide evidence of wider impact for...
Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking (2002)
The web is an important medium for scholarly communication of various types, perhaps eventually to entirely replace some traditional mechanisms such as print journals. Yet the web analogy of...
models for counting links between university web sites
A research and institutional size based model for national university web site interlinking (2002)
Web links are a phenomenon of interest to bibliometricians by analogy with citations, and to others because of their use in web navigation and search engines. It is known that very few links on...
The Responsiveness of Search Engine Indexes (2001)
Search engines are an important tool for information foraging on the web. The broad details of how they work is, therefore, of relevance to both information seekers and providers. Yet search engines...
The Responsiveness of Search Engine Indexes (2001)
Search engines are an important tool for information foraging on the web. The broad details of how they work is, therefore, of relevance to both information seekers and providers. Yet search engines...
Custom interfaces for advanced queries in search engines (2001)
Thelwall, Mike, Binns, Ray, Harries, Gareth, Page-Kennedy, Theresa, Price, Liz, Wilkinson, David
Those seeking information from the Internet often start from a search engine, using either its organised directory structure or its text query facility. In response to the difficulty in identifying...
Results from a web impact factor crawler (2001)
Web impact factors, the proposed web equivalent of impact factors for journals, can be calculated by using search engines. It has been found that the results are problematic because of the variable...
Web log file analysis: backlinks and queries (2001)
As has been described else where, web log files are a useful source of information about visitor site use, navigation behaviour, and, to some extent, demographics. But log files can also reveal the...
Commercial Web site links. (2001)
Every hyperlink pointing at a Web site is a potential source of new visitors, especially one near the top of a results page from a popular search engine. The order of the links in a search results...
Computer-based assessment in numeracy and data analysis (2001)
CELT research project on changing practice through innovation and research
Extracting Macroscopic Information from Web Links (2001)
Much has been written about the potential and pitfalls of macroscopic web-based link analysis, yet there have been no studies that have provided clear statistical evidence that any of the proposed...
The effect of postings information on searching behaviour A web crawler design for data mining
Web impact factors and search engine coverage (2000)
Search engines index only a proportion of the web and this proportion is not determined randomly but by following algorithms that take into account the properties that impact factors measure. A...
Effective websites for small and medium-sized enterprises (2000)
In the UK, millions are now online and many are prepared to use the Internet to make and influence purchasing decisions. Businesses should, therefore, consider whether the Internet could provide them...
Commercial Web sites: lost in cyberspace? (2000)
How easy are business Web sites for potential customers to find? This paper reports on a survey of 60,087 Web sites from 42 of the major general and commercial domains around the world to extract...
Political Hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical Indicators of Ideology and Content
Han Woo Park, Mike Thelwall, Randolph Kluver
As the Internet has become a more important source of information for citizens and consumers, politicians in a number of nations have employed the Web as a tool to facilitate contact with...