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Our sentiment strength detection program SentiStrength is now available.
The book Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences is now published.
Call for papers for the Social Networking in Cyberspace conference, Wolverhampton, 23 April 2010.
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An information science research group developing software and methodologies to exploit Internet-based data sources for social sciences research. We research scientometrics, link analysis, cybermetrics, webometrics and web science.
Our evaluation by the UK research assessment Library and Information Management panel gave an average score of 2.75, which was joint 2nd in the UK. Of our submitted research publications, we had the joint highest proportion in our category classed as "world leading". Our high results were talked about nationally.
- Blog analysis, hyperlink analysis, social network and web text analysis, particularly in research-related issues and as an aid to science measurement.
- PhD supervision in cybermetrics, webometrics, informetrics and general social science research that includes a significant component of internet-based quantitative methods. In the UK research classification system, this is Library and Information Management.
NEWS: Together with the Wolverhampton Internet and Technology Society (WITS) we are co-hosting a Social Networking in Cyberspace conference in Wolverhampton, April 2010.
Contact Mike Thelwall m.thelwall @ wlv.ac.uk for more information about (self-funded) Ph.D. places, collaboration or research project proposals.
See a web environment network of this web site.
Speaker timetable and proposed doctoral forum and workshop schedule
MySpace: A webometric perspective from Alexa. |