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Publications

2010-2011 [ We stopped updating this list in 2010 so please see this extra list and this one]

2009

• Otero, E. & Cugelman, B. (2009) UN Millennium Campaign: External evaluation 2009. United Nations Millennium Campaign, Leitmotiv and Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group.
• Cugelman, B. & Otero, E. (2009) UN Millennium Campaign: United States evaluation. United Nations Millennium Campaign, Leitmotiv and Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group.
• Koteyko, N. Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (in press). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation, Science Communication.
• Thelwall, M., Wilkinson, D. & Uppal, S. (in press). Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
• Shifman, L. & Thelwall, M. (2009, in press). Assessing global diffusion with Web Memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
• Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Google Book Search: Citation analysis for social science and the humanities, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8), 1537-1549.
• Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2009). The dimensions of website credibility and their relation to active trust and behavioural impact, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 24, 455-472.
• Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., (2009). Sentiment analysis: A combined approach, Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 143-157.
• Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2009). Citation levels and collaboration within Library and Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(3), 434-442. Please note that seven Price medallists (Moravscik MJ; Merton RK; Vlachy, J; Irvine, J; Nalimov VV; Martin BR; Rousseau R) were omitted from the table of results - these are all clearly highly influential information scientists but did not meet one of the technical criteria mentioned in the methods for conducting the analysis. 
• Thelwall, M. (2009). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.60(2), 219-231
• Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.[an analysis of words used in MySpace comments]
• Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of Alternative Document Models. ASLIB Proceedings., 61(1), 101-116

2008

1. Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.
2. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Assessing the impact of disciplinary research on teaching:  An automatic analysis of online syllabuses, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(13), 2060-2069.
3. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Is multidisciplinary research more highly cited? A macro-level study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(12), 1973-1984.
4. Thelwall, M. (2008). No place for news in social networking web sites? Online Information Review, 32(6), 726-744.
5. Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Developing network indicators for ideological landscapes from the political blogosphere in South Korea. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(4), 856-879.
6. Thelwall, M. (2008). How are social network sites embedded in the web? An exploratory link analysis. Cybermetrics. 12(1), paper 1.
7. Thelwall, M. (2008). Text in social network web sites: A word frequency analysis of Live Spaces, First Monday 13(2).
8. Thelwall, M. (2008). Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(8), 1321-1330.
9. Thelwall, M., Wouters, P., & Fry, J. (2008). Information-Centred Research for large-scale analysis of new information sources, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(9), 1523-1527.
10. Thelwall, M. (2008/9, to appear). Quantitative comparisons of search engine results, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
11. Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Fk yea I swear: Cursing and gender in a corpus of MySpace pages, Corpora, 3(1), 83-107. Preprint (with extended literature review and background information compared to the published version, and a revised first two paragraphs of the conclusion [8 Jan, 2008]) available at: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/papers/MySpaceSwearing_online.doc
12. Prabowo, R, & Thelwall, M. (2008). Finding and tracking subjects in a debate over time, Journal of Informetrics, 2(2), 107-127
13. Thelwall, M. & Kousha, K. (2008, to appear). Online presentations as a source of scientific impact?: An analysis of PowerPoint files citing academic journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
14. Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Bibliometrics to Webometrics, Journal of Information Science, 34(4). [This paper has been accepted for publication in Journal of Information Science and the final (edited, revised and typeset), definitive version of this paper will be published in 2008 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © SAGE Publications Ltd]
15. Holmberg, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis, Scientometrics.
16. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles and the prediction of their citation ranking: A comparison across subjects, Scientometrics.
17. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Do academic link types change over time?, Journal of Documentation.
18. Angus, E., Thelwall, M., & Stuart D. (2008). General patterns of tag usage in Flickr image groups, Online Information Review, 32(1), 89-101.
19. Barjak, F. & Thelwall, M. (2008). A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life sciences research teams. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.59(4), 628-643.
20. Levitt, J., & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). The most highly cited Library and Information Science articles: Interdisciplinarity, first authors and citation patterns. Scientometrics.
21. Thelwall, M. & Zuccala, A. (2008, to appear). A university-centred European Union link analysis, Scientometrics.
22. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2008). A generic lexical URL segmentation framework for counting links, colinks or URLs, Library and Information Science Research, 30(2), 94-101. [publisher's final version]
23. Thelwall, M. (2008). Extracting accurate and complete results from search engines: Case study Windows Live. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 38-50.
24. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Longitudinal trends in academic web links. Journal of Information Science, 34(1), 3-14. http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/1/3?etoc
25. Thelwall, M., Li, X., Barjak, F. & Robinson, S. (2008). Assessing the web connectivity of research groups on an international scale. ASLIB Proceedings.60(1), 18-31.
26. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2008). Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines. Scientometrics, 74(2). 273-294.
27. Park, H. W. & Thelwall, M. (2008, to appear). Web linkage pattern and social structure using politicians’ websites in South Korea. Quality & Quantity

2007

• Thelwall, M., Byrne, A. & Goody, M. (2007). Which types of news story attract bloggers? Information Research 12(4).
• Cugelman, B., Thelwall M., & Dawes P. (2007). Can brotherhood be sold like soap…Online? An online social marketing and advocacy pilot study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Persuasive Technology 07), 4744, 144-147.
• Zuccala, A., Thelwall, M., Oppenheim, C., & Dhiensa, R. (2007). Web Intelligence Analyses of Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Journal of Documentation, 63(4), 558-589.
• Lamboitte, R., Ausloos, M. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Word statistics in Blogs and RSS feeds: Towards empirical universal evidence. Journal of Informetrics, 1(4), 277-286
• Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). The web impact of open access social science research. Library and Information Science Research. 29(4), 495-507.
• Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). How is science cited on the web? A classification of Google unique web citations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(11), 1631-1644.
• Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D. (2007). RUOK? Communication technologies blogged during a crisis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(9).
• Thelwall, M. & Hasler, L. (2007). Blog search engines. Online Information Review, 31(4), 467-479.
• Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M. & Alexandrov, M. (2007). Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. Journal of Informetrics.
• 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. [publisher version]
• Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2007). A longitudinal study of academic webs: Growth and stabilisation, Scientometrics, 71(3), 523-539
• Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Google Scholar citations and Google Web/URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(6), 1055-1065.
• Stuart, D., Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2007). UK academic web links and collaboration – an exploratory study. Journal of Information Science, 33(2), 231-246.
• Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).
• Thelwall, M. & Prabowo, R. (2007). Identifying and characterinsing public science-related fears from RSS feeds. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(3), 379-390.
• Barjak, F., Li., X. & Thelwall, M. (2007). Which factors explain the web impact of scientists’ personal homepages? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(2), 200-211.

2006

1. Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).
2. Thelwall, M., & Ruschenburg, T. (2006). Webometrie, Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57(8), 401-406.
3. Stuart, D. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Investigating triple helix relationships using URL citations: A case study of the UK West Midlands automobile industry. Research Evaluation , 15(2), 97-106 .
4. Prabowo, R. & Thelwall, M. (2006). A comparison of feature selection methods for an evolving RSS feed corpus. Information Processing & Management (Informetrics special issue), 42(6), 1491-1512.
5. Thelwall, M., Thelwall, S. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Automated web issue analysis: A nurse prescribing case study. Information Processing & Management (Informetrics special issue), 42(6), 1471-1483.
6. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Motivations for URL citations to open access LIS library and information science articles: Exploring characteristics of sources of Web citation. Scientometrics , 68(3), 501-517.
7. Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D . (2006). Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy and denial of service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(13), 1771-1779.
8. Thelwall, M., Prabowo, R. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Are raw RSS feeds suitable for broad issue scanning? A science concern case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(12), 1644-1654.
9. Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2006). Language evolution and the spread of ideas: A procedure for identifying emergent hybrid word family members. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1326-1337.
10. Thelwall, M., Vann, K. & Fairclough, R. (2006). Web issue analysis: An Integrated Water Resource Management case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10), 1303-1314.
11. Thelwall, M., Barjak, F. & Kretchmer, H. (2006). Web links and gender in science: An exploratory analysis. Scientometrics, 67(3), 373-383.
12. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2006). Web science communication in the age of globalization: Links among universities’ websites in Asia and Europe. New Media & Society, 8(4), 631-652
13. Kim, H., Park, H.W., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Comparing academic hyperlink structures with journal publishing in Korea: A social network analysis, Science Communication, 27(4), 540-564
14. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2007, to appear). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly.
15. Thelwall, M. (2006). Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), 60-68.

2005

1. Thelwall, M. (2005). Directing students to new information types: A new role for Google in literature searches? , Internet Reference Services Quarterly , 10(3/4), 159-166.
2. Scharnhorst, A. & Thelwall, M., (2005). Citation and hyperlink networks. Current Science, 89(9), 1518-1523.
3. Thoms, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self, First Monday, 10(12), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/thoms/
4. Thelwall, M. (2005). Creating and using web corpora, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 10(4), 517-541.
5. Park, H.W., Thelwall, M. & Kluver, R. (2005, to appear). Political hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical indicators of ideology and content, Sociological Research Online.
6. Kim, H., Park, H.W., & Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). Comparing academic hyperlink structures with journal publishing in Korea: A social network analysis, Science Communication.
7. Thelwall, M. Barlow, A., & Vann, K. (2005). The limits of web-based empowerment: Integrated Water Resource Management case studies. First Monday 10(4),
8. Payne, N., & Thelwall, M. (2005). Mathematical models for academic Webs: Linear relationship or non-linear power law? Information Processing & Management, 41(6), 1495-1510.
9. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2005). National and international university departmental web site interlinking: Part 1, validation of departmental link analysis. Scientometrics, 64(2), 151-185.
10. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2005). National and international university departmental web site interlinking: Part 2, link patterns. Scientometrics, 64(2), 187-208.
11. [key paper] Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). Interpreting social science link analysis research: A theoretical framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
12. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2006, to appear). Web science communication in the age of globalization: Links among universities’ websites in Asia and Europe. New Media & Society.
13. Price, E. & Thelwall, M. (2005). The clustering power of low frequency words in academic webs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(8), 883-888.
14. Thelwall, M. (2005). Text characteristics of English language university web sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56 (6), 609–619.
15. Kretschmer, H. & Thelwall, M. (2004). The way from librametry to webometrics. Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics, 1(1), 1-7.
16. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L. & Björneborn, L. (2005). Webometrics. In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 39, 81-135.
17. Park, H. & Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). Bridging the gap between qualitative approaches and the use of quantitative methods in hyperlink analysis , In: Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet (chapter 13), Oxford: Berg.
18. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2005). A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities. Information Processing & Management, 41(2), 347-359.
19. Thelwall, M. (2005). Data cleansing and validation for Multiple Site Link Structure Analysis . In: Scime, A. (Ed). Web Mining: Applications and Techniques. Idea Group Inc. pp. 208-227.
20. Thelwall, M. (2005). Scientific Web Intelligence: Finding relationships in university webs. Communications of the ACM, 48(7), 93-96.
21. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2005, to appear). A hyperlink analysis of US public and academic libraries’ Web sites, Library Quarterly.

2004

1. Thelwall, M. (2004). Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
2. Cothey, V. (2004). Web-crawling reliability. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(14), 1228-1238.
3. Payne, N. & Thelwall, M. (2004). A statistical analysis of UK academic web links. Cybermetrics. 8(1).
4. Harries, G., Wilkinson, D., Price, E., Fairclough, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlinks as a data source for science mapping, Journal of Information Science, 30(5), 436-447 .
5. Rousseau, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Escher staircases on the world wide web. FirstMonday, 9(6).
6. Thelwall, M. (2004). Will digital libraries generate a new need for multi-disciplinary research skills? LIBRES, 14(2).
7. Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2004). Can personal web pages that link to universities yield information about the wider dissemination of research? Journal of Information Science, 30(3), 243-256.
8. Thelwall, M. (2004). Can the Web give useful Information about commercial uses of scientific research? Online Information Review, 28(2), 28(2), 120-130.
9. Thelwall, M. (2004). Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research. Research Evaluation, 13(1), 63-68.
10. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Patterns of national and international web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations. Scientometrics, 60(3), 475-485.
11. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2004). Finding similar academic Web sites with links, bibliometric couplings and colinks. Information Processing & Management, 40(3), 515-526.
12. Thelwall, M. (2004). Methods for reporting on the targets of links from national systems of university Web sites. Information Processing & Management, 40(1), 125-144.
13. Musgrove, P., Binns, R., Page-Kennedy, T., & Thelwall, M. (2004). A method for identifying clusters in sets of interlinking Web spaces, Scientometrics, 58(3), 657-672.
14. [key paper] Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2004). Do better scholars' web publications have significantly higher online impact?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(2), 149-159.
15. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes, Information Processing & Management, 40(4), 693-707.
16. Thelwall, M. & Vaughan, L (2004). New versions of PageRank employing alternative web document models, ASLIB Proceedings, 56(1), 24-33.
17. Thelwall, M., & Vaughan, L. (2004). A fair history of the Web? Examining country balance in the Internet Archive, Library & Information Science Research, 26(2), 162-176.
18. Thelwall, M. (2004). Vocabulary Spectral Analysis as an exploratory tool for Scientific Web Intelligence. In: Information Visualization (IV04), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, pp. 501-506.
19. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Scholarly Communication on the Web. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran.
20. Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2004). Motivations for linking to open access LIS e-articles: Exploring characteristics of sources of web citation. Tehran conference on Scientometrics and Webometrics, University of Tehran, Iran.
21. Thelwall, M. (2004). Using search engines and web crawlers in social science research, RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology (Amsterdam, August 16-20).
22. Thelwall, M. (2004). Hyperlink analysis: Merton & Garfield vs. Malinowski & MacRoberts. IR 5.0 (19-22nd September, Brighton).

2003

1. Li, X. (2003). A review of the development and application of the Web Impact Factor, Online Information Review, 27(6), 407-417.
2. Musgrove, P., Binns, R., Page-Kennedy, T., & Thelwall, M. (2003). A method for identifying clusters in sets of interlinking Web spaces, Scientometrics 58(3), 657-672.
3. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Disciplinary differences in US academic departmental web site interlinking, Library and Information Science Research, 25(4), 437-458.
4. Thelwall, M. & Tang, R. (2003). Disciplinary and linguistic considerations for academic Web linking: An exploratory hyperlink mediated study with Mainland China and Taiwan, Scientometrics, 58(1), 153-179.
5. Thelwall, M., Harries, G., & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Why do Web sites from different academic subjects interlink? Journal of Information Science, 29(6), 445-463.
6. Thelwall, M. (2003). What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation, Information research, 8(3).
7. Wilkinson, D., Thelwall, M. & Li, X. (2003). Exploiting hyperlinks to study academic Web use. Social Science Computer Review, 21(3), 340-351.
8. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Patterns of international and national Web inlinks to US university departments: A Webometric analysis of disciplinary specificity. Proceedings of ISSI 2003.
9. Thelwall, M. (2003). A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of communities in the Web, Journal of Documentation, 59(4), 410-429.
10. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Do academic Web pages in Western Europe attract more links if they are in English?, ISSI 2003.
11. Thelwall, M. (2003). Patterns and problems of cross-border collaboration: the social impact of the hybrid Web. Abstracts of the Conference of the European Sociological Association, Murcia, (Spain), September 23-26, pp327-328..
12. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). The relationship between the links/Web Impact Factors of computer science departments in UK and their RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) ranking in 2001, Scientometrics 57(2), 239-255.
13. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Graph structure in three national academic Webs: Power laws with anomalies, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(8), 706-712.
14. Thelwall, M., Vaughan, L., Cothey, V., Li, X. & Smith, A. (2003). Which academic subjects have most online impact? A pilot study and a new classification process, Online Information Review 27(5), 333-343.
15. Thelwall, M. & Harries, G. (2003). The Connection between the Research of a University and Counts of Links to its Web Pages: An Investigation Based Upon a Classification of the Relationships of Pages to the Research of the Host University. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(7), 594-602.
16. Thelwall, M., & Aguillo, I. (2003). La salud de las Web universitarias españolas, Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 26(3).
17. Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2003). Three target document range metrics for university Web sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(6), 489-496.
18. Thelwall, M. (2003). A free database of university Web links: Data collection issues. Cybermetrics, 6.
19. Thelwall, M., Tang, R. & Price, E. (2003). Linguistic Patterns of Academic Web use in Western Europe, Scientometrics, 56(3), 417-432.
20. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Scholarly use of the Web: What are the key inducers of links to journal Web sites? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 29-38.
21. [key paper] Wilkinson, D., Harries, G., Thelwall, M. & Price, E. (2003). Motivations for academic Web site interlinking: Evidence for the Web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly communication, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 29(1), 59-66.
22. Thelwall, M. (2003). Can Google’s PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages? Journal of Documentation, 59(2), 205-217.
23. Thelwall, M. (2003). Web use and peer interconnectivity metrics for academic Web sites, Journal of Information Science, 29(1), 11-20.

2002

1. Thelwall, M. & Smith, A. (2002). A study of the interlinking between Asia-Pacific University Web sites, Scientometrics, 55(3), 335-348.
2. Thelwall, M. (2002). A research and institutional size based model for national university Web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation,58(6), 683-694.
3. Thelwall, M. (2002). Research dissemination and invocation on the Web, Online Information Review, 26(6), 413-420.
4. Tang, R. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Exploring the pattern of links between Chinese university Web sites, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 39 (ASIST 2002), pp. 417-424.
5. Vaughan, L. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web link counts correlate with ISI Impact Factors: evidence from two disciplines, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 39 (ASIST 2002), pp. 436-443.
6. Li, X., Thelwall, M., Musgrove, P. & Wilkinson, D. (2002). The relationship between the links/Web Impact Factors of computer science departments in UK and their RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) Ranking in 2001. Seventh International S&T Indicators Conference from 25 to 28 September 2002 in Karlsruhe,Germany.
7. Soualmia,L.F., Darmoni, S.J. Le Duff, F., Douyère, M., & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factor: a bibliometric criterion applied to medical informatics societies’ Web sites, In: Proceedings of MIE 2002, Seventeenth International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Studies in Health Technology & Informatics, 90, 178-183.
8. Thelwall, M. (2002). Analysing the link structure of the web sites of national university systems. EASST 2002 York July 2002.
9. Thelwall, M. (2002). Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university web site interlinking, Journal of Documentation,58(5), 563-574.
10. Thelwall, M. (2002). The top 100 linked pages on UK university Web sites: high inlink counts are not usually directly associated with quality scholarly content, Journal of Information Science, 28(6), 485-493.
11. Thelwall, M. (2002). In praise of Google: finding law journal Web sites, Online Information Review,26(4), 271-272. [research note]
12. Thelwall, M. (2002). A Comparison of Sources of Links for Academic Web Impact Factor Calculations, Journal of Documentation, 58(1), 60-72.
13. Douyère,M., Soualmia, L.F., Le Duff, F., Thelwall, M. & Darmoni, S.J. (2002). Web Impact Factor : un outil bibliométrique appliqué aux sites Web des facultés de médecine et des CHU français, Neuvièmes Journées Francophones d'Informatique Médicale. 6-7 mai 2002, Québec-Canada.
14. [key paper] Thelwall, M. (2002). Conceptualizing documentation on the Web: an evaluation of different heuristic-based models for counting links between university web sites, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(12), 995-1005.
15. Chu, H., He, S. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Library and Information Science Schools in Canada and USA: A Webometric Perspective. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 43(2),110-125.
16. Thelwall, M. (2002). Subject gateway sites and search engine ranking, Online Information Review, 26(2), 101-107.
17. Thelwall, M. (2002). Methodologies for Crawler Based Web Surveys, Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Applications, 12(2), 124-138.
18. Smith, A. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Web Impact Factors for Australasian Universities, Scientometrics, 54(3), 363-380.
19. Thelwall, M., Binns, R., Harries, G., Page-Kennedy, T., Price E. and Wilkinson, D. (2002). European Union Associated University Websites, Scientometrics, 53(1), 95-111.
20. Chu, H., He, S. & Thelwall, M. (2002). Library and Information Science Schools in Canada and USA: A Webometric Perspective. ALISE 2002, Jan 15-18 Louisiana, USA.
21. Thelwall, M. (2002). An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university web sites, ASLIB Proceedings, 54(2), 118-126.

2001

1. Thelwall, M. (2001). Extracting macroscopic information from web links, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52(13), 1157-1168.
2. Thelwall, M. Binns, R. Harries, G. Page-Kennedy, T. Price E., and Wilkinson, D. (2001). Custom Interfaces for advanced queries in search engines, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(10), 413-422.
3. Thelwall, M. (2001). Exploring the link structure of the Web with network diagrams, Journal of Information Science 27(6) 393-402.
4. Thelwall, M. (2001). A survey of search engine capabilities useful in data mining, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Volume 38 (ASIST 2001) 24-30.
5. Thelwall, M. (2001). A Web Crawler Design for Data Mining, Journal of Information Science 27(5), 319-325.
6. Smith, A. and Thelwall, M. (2001). Web Impact Factors and University research links, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, Sydney Australia, 16-20 July.
7. Thelwall, M. (2001). Web Log File Analysis: Backlinks and Queries, ASLIB Proceedings, 53(6) 217-223.
8. Thelwall, M. (2001). The Responsiveness of Search Engine Indexes, Cybermetrics,5(1), http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v5i1p1.html.
9. Thelwall, M. (2001).Commercial Web Site Links, Internet Research, 11(2), 114-124.
10. Thelwall, M. (2001). Results from a Web Impact Factor crawler, Journal of Documentation, 57(2), 177-191.

Other documents published by the research group

1. Uberti, T. E. (2000). Economic perspectives on new information technologies during the globalisation era. MSc Thesis, University of Manchester.

Related publications from before the formation of the group

1. Thelwall, M. (2000). Who is Using the .co.uk Domain? Professional and Media adoption of the Web, International Journal of Information Management, 20(6), 441-453.
2. Thelwall, M. (2000). Effective Web Sites for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159.
3. Thelwall, M. (2000). Web Impact Factors and Search Engine Coverage, Journal of Documentation, 56(2), 185-189.
4. Thelwall, M. (2000). Commercial Web sites: Lost in Cyberspace?, Internet Research, 10(2), 150-159.
5. Thompson, D., Homer, G. and Thelwall, M. (2000). An Examination of the Potential Role of the Internet in Distributed SPC and Quality Systems, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 16(1), p51-57.

Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology & Research Institute for Information and Langauge Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK