People

Visiting Professors

Paul Wouters - Visiting Professor of Cybermetrics. CWTS Director at Leiden University.

Andrea Scharnhorst - Visiting Professor of Cybermetrics and Head of Research at DANS, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Janusz Holyst - Visiting Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics, Group of Physics in Economy and Social Sciences, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology.

Farida Vis - Visiting Professor of Visual Social Media and Professor of Digital Media, Manchester School of Art, UK.

Members

	Mahshid Abdoli - Researcher studying altmetrics, scientometrics and social media content analysis.		Joe Aduku - PhD student. Studying altmetrics with Mendeley.
	Matt Bickley - PhD student researching grey literature citations.		Brian Cugelman Honorary Research Fellow and head of AlterSpark. Researching online social marketing. Formerly worked for the UN on campaign web sites.
	Fereshteh Didegah - Former PhD student, currently working in Canada. Researching citation motivations and highly cited scholars.		Ruth Fairclough - Head of maths at Wolverhampton. Researching personal life statistics events available on the web. Also expert on childhood obesity statistics.
	David Foster - PhD student (part time) and working at Birmingham City University.		Reshmi Gopalakrishna Pillai- PhD student researching sentiment strength expressed in social media content.
	Kim Holmberg - Honorary Research Fellow and former postdoctoral researcher. Researching information science social web applications. Research associate at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education at University of Turku, Finland.		Nushrat Khan - PhD student researching data citation. orcid.org/0000-0002-4521-0920
	Kayvan Kousha - Researcher investigating web citation analysis. Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science Department, University of Tehran. orcid.org/0000-0003-4827-971X		Anna Last - PhD student researching the use of altmetrics in the evaluation of the impact of health information.
	Jonathan Levitt - Senior Researcher in the under-representation of disabled people and writer on disability. Currently researching the barriers, due to disability, to disabled people obtaining academic employment and conducting academic research. Previously conducted research in informetrics. Led an ESRC-funded project at Loughborough University.		Xuemei Li - Honorary Research Fellow. Business Librarian at York University, Canada. First ever Wolverhampton person with an ISI fast breaking paper and first with an ISI New Hot Paper!
	Anna Lebiedziewicz - PhD student researching gender differences in research publishing.
	Wan Jing Low - Former PhD student. Statistical modelling of webometric and altmetric data.		Meiko Makita - Postdoctoral researcher studying aging and social media content analysis.
	Amalia Mas-Bleda - Postdoctoral researcher studying altmetrics and social media content analysis. orcid.org/0000-0001-5927-424X		David Minguillo - Postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg. Former PhD student researching the webometrics of science parks.
	Ehsan Mohammadi - Researcher at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA, and former PhD student. Mapping the structure of scholarly knowledge through different sources. Eugene Garfield scholarship winner [Persian article].		Natalia Ponomareva - Former PhD student researching sentiment transfer - methods for sentiment analysis across different domains (e.g., reviews for different types of product, different document genres).
	Marzieh Shahmandi - PhD student researching statistical distributions for citatation and altmetric data.		Emma Stuart Postdoctoral researcher studying folksonomy for image retrieval with a particular focus on motivations for tagging in Flickr groups.
	David Stuart is an independent information professional and honorary research fellow. Researching the web and blogging about home education.		Pardeep Sud - member of staff. Researching webometrics, altmetrics and YouTube. orcid.org/0000-0002-3304-0469
	Mike Taylor - part-time PhD student of alternative metrics and Head of Metrics Development at Digital Science.		Mike Thelwall - member of staff. Researching link analysis, text analysis, social network sites, sentiment analysis. orcid.org/0000-0001-6065-205X
	David Wilkinson - Retired member of staff. Researching interdisciplinary linking on the web and academic hyperlink classification.		Paul Wilson - member of staff. Statistician researching statistical modelling of data, with a specialism in models for count data, especially zero-modified models. Expert on runny pig poo.

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