People

Visiting Professors

Paul Wouters - Visiting Professor of Cybermetrics. Dean of the Leiden University Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

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. Orcid: 0000-0001-9251-5391		Joe Aduku - former PhD student and lecturer. 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 - Metadata for Research Outputs Unit, University Library, Karolinska Institutet and former PhD student. 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. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-5307
	David Foster - Former PhD student and senior lecturer in education lecturer at Gloucestershire University.		Reshmi Pillai - Former PhD student researching psychological stress 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 - Senior Research Fellow and Data Scientist at the UCL Institute of Child Health and former PhD student researching data citation. orcid.org/0000-0002-4521-0920
	Kayvan Kousha - Senior 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 Research Fellow in Obstacles Faced by Disadvantaged 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. orcid.org/0000-0002-4386-3813		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. RIP wonderful Anna - you are sadly missed.
	Wan Jing Low - Former PhD student. Statistical modelling of webometric and altmetric data.		Nabeil Maflahi - Senior Lecturer in mathematics, researching altmetrics and bibliometrics. Orcid: 0000-0001-8919-1920
	Meiko Makita- Social Media Research Fellow studying aging and social media content analysis. Orcid: 0000-0002-2284-0161		Amalia Mas-Bleda - Former Social Media Research Fellow 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. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7048-5950		Tamara Nevill - Senior Lecturer in mathematics. orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-3435
	Ehsan Mohammadi - Assistant Professor at the iSchool at the University of South Carolina and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and former PhD student. Mapping the structure of scholarly knowledge through different sources. Eugene Garfield scholarship winner [Persian article]. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3481-6991		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 - Research Associate, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University and former PhD student researching statistical models for citatation data. orcid.org/0000-0003-2474-7283		Emma Stuart - Social Media Research Fellow studying folksonomy for image retrieval with a particular focus on motivations for tagging in Flickr groups. Orcid:0000-0003-4807-7659
	David Stuart is an independent information professional and honorary research fellow. Researching the web and blogging about home education.		Pardeep Sud - Senior Lecturer in mathematics. Researching webometrics, altmetrics and YouTube. orcid.org/0000-0002-3304-0469
	Mike Taylor - part-time PhD student of alternative metrics and Head of Data Insights at Digital Science. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-5985		Mike Thelwall - member of staff. Researching link analysis, text analysis, social network sites, sentiment analysis. orcid.org/0000-0001-6065-205X
	David Wilkinson - Retired head of mathematics. Researched interdisciplinary linking on the web and academic hyperlink classification.		Paul Wilson - Senior Lecturer in statistics. Statistician researching statistical modelling of data, with a specialism in models for count data, especially zero-modified models. Expert on runny pig poo. orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-543X