Awards and International Recognition
‘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", voted by ASLIB members.
‘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.
Online Information Review's Outstanding Paper award for, ‘Can the Web give useful information about commercial uses of scientific research?’
ISI Fast Breaking Paper (Social Sciences, General; June 2004), ISI New Hot Paper (Social Sciences, General; July 2004), 3rd hottest paper (Social Sciences, General; January 2004), most improved (author category; Social Sciences, General; July 2004), 3rd hottest paper (Social Sciences, General; May 2004).
Based largely upon our work, Wolverhampton University was listed as the world's most improved institution (Social Sciences, General; May 2004), and again world's most improved institution (Social Sciences, General; July 2004).
‘Highly Commended’ for papers published in Online Information Review in 2007 awarded to: Thelwall, M. (2007). Blog searching: The first general-purpose source of retrospective public opinion in the social sciences? Online Information Review, 31(3), 277-289.
'Outstanding paper award' for papers published in ASLIB Proceedings in 2011 awarded to: Thelwall, M. (2011). A comparison of link and URL citation counting. ASLIB Proceedings, 63(4), 419-425.