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2025

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D-Index
105
Citations
46019
World Ranking
286
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
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Overview

Mike Thelwall is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Decision Sciences and Social Sciences, evidenced by over a hundred publications in each area. Within these fields, Thelwall's subfield expertise includes Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, and Information Systems and Management.

Thelwall's work covers a broad range of main topics, including scientometrics and bibliometrics research, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare and education, academic publishing and open access, misinformation and its impacts, health and medical research impacts, and research data management practices.

Key recent papers include:

  • Scopus 1900-2020: Growth in articles, abstracts, countries, fields, and journals (2022), Quantitative Science Studies
  • COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts (2020), Quantitative Science Studies
  • Artificial intelligence to support publishing and peer review: A summary and review (2023), Learned Publishing
  • Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy on English-language Twitter (2021), El Profesional de la Informacion
  • Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies (2021), Library & Information Science Research

Thelwall collaborates frequently with a set of coauthors, notably Kayvan Kousha, Meiko Makita, Emma Stuart, Mahshid Abdoli, and Jonathan M. Levitt, with collaboration counts ranging from over 20 to nearly 50 joint works.

Publication venues where Thelwall's work appears regularly include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Scientometrics
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Journal of Data and Information Science

In addition to articles, Thelwall has contributed to book publications, including the work Word Association Thematic Analysis published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Sentiment in short strength detection informal text

    Mike Thelwall;Kevan Buckley;Georgios Paltoglou;Di Cai

  • Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

    Alberto Martín-Martín;Enrique Orduna-Malea;Mike Thelwall;Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

  • Sentiment strength detection for the social web

    Mike Thelwall;Kevan Buckley;Georgios Paltoglou

  • Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services

    Mike Thelwall;Stefanie Haustein;Vincent Larivière;Cassidy R. Sugimoto

  • Sentiment in Twitter events

    Mike Thelwall;Kevan Buckley;Georgios Paltoglou

  • Sentiment analysis: A combined approach

    Rudy Prabowo;Mike Thelwall

  • The metric tide: report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management

    James Wilsdon;Liz Allen;Eleonora Belfiore;Philip Campbell

  • Bibliometrics to webometrics

    Mike Thelwall

  • Social networks, gender, and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles

    Mike Thelwall

  • Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

    Stefanie Haustein;Isabella Peters;Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Mike Thelwall

  • Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences

    Michael Thelwall

  • A Study of Information Retrieval Weighting Schemes for Sentiment Analysis

    Georgios Paltoglou;Mike Thelwall

  • Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace

    Mike Thelwall;David Wilkinson;Sukhvinder Uppal

  • Sentiment Analysis Is a Big Suitcase

    Erik Cambria;Soujanya Poria;Alexander Gelbukh;Mike Thelwall

  • Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach

    Mike Thelwall

  • Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes

    Liwen Vaughan;Mike Thelwall

  • Disciplinary differences in Twitter scholarly communication

    Kim Holmberg;Mike Thelwall

  • Hyperlink Analyses of the World Wide Web: a Review

    Han Woo Park;Mike Thelwall

  • Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement

    Xuemei Li;Mike Thelwall;Dean Giustini

  • Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows

    Ehsan Mohammadi;Mike Thelwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Kayvan Kousha
Kayvan Kousha University of Wolverhampton
Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Liwen Vaughan
Liwen Vaughan University of Western Ontario
Janusz A. Hołyst
Janusz A. Hołyst Warsaw University of Technology
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Cassidy R. Sugimoto Indiana University
David I. Stuart
David I. Stuart University of Oxford
Han Woo Park
Han Woo Park Yeungnam University
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Judit Bar-Ilan
Judit Bar-Ilan Bar-Ilan University
Daniel Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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