my research, its potential, and its contribution to scit
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My Research, its Potential, and its Contribution to SCIT
Mike Thelwall
My Research: Subject
Cybermetrics (started in 1999) Part of Information Science Part of UoA 61 Library and Information
Management Overlaps with UoA 25 Computer Science Related to Science Policy, Cultural Studies,
Statistics, Mathematics
My Research: Subject
Cybermetrics is the application of quantitative methods to study Internet information
Research involves using a web crawler to collect data from the web, statistics to analyse the data and the other subjects to formulate hypotheses and analyse the results
My Research: Subject
Example: most recent paper published: “A layered approach for investigating the topological structure of
communities in the Web” Crawled the web sites of all universities in the UK, Australia and
New Zealand Devised a modification of Flake’s Community Identification
Algorithm Identified communities in the three Webs (running the algorithm
in parallel on 40 computers for 2 weeks) Showed that significant community structures are present in
academic webs, if the correct parameters are used Education and Computer Science are “topic breakers”
Achievements
Head of a highly successful research group, helping many members of staff to publish and become research active
56 journal articles published 98 publications in total Three successful external funding bids
EU WISER project Canadian SSHRC Emerald (private publisher)
Achievements
Editorial board member for 2 journals and 1 book series
Reviewer for 9 journals Reviewer for AHRB External examiner for 2 Computer Science PhDs ‘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
Achievements
Supervisor for 2 PhD students Quoted in Nature Science Update “Search
engine makes social calls” 5 invited talks at other institutions 20 collaborating researchers outside
Wolverhampton in 4 continents over the past two years
Evidence of International Excellence
One of the most successful information science researchers in the world over the past four years?
Use the Research Assessment Exercise criteria to judge this – driven by the quality of publications
Evidence of International Excellence
What do you have to do to be classified as 5* internationally excellent in UoA 61?
Publish in the Journal of Documentation, JASIST, or Information Processing & Management (Oppenheim, 1995)
Benchmark: a total of three papers in the above three journals over a five year period
Evidence of International Excellence
My publication record… JASIST: 7 papers in 5 years Journal of Documentation: 7 papers in 5 years Information Processing & Management: 3 papers in 5
years Overall: 17 papers in 5 years in the top 3 journals
Is this the best track record (for these journals) of any academic in the World?
Evidence of International Excellence
Citation analysis –possibly used in next RAE Duplicating the methods of Oppenheim (2000)
gives 191 ISI citations to articles published in the last 4 years
Ranked 3rd out of 338 in the UK If my 2004/5 citation rate continues the total will be
close to 1,000 by 2008, one of the top in the world
Evidence of International Excellence
Lifetime achievement statistics (He & Spink, 2002) Joint 6th highest foreign author in JASIST Joint 2nd in the Journal of Documentation (if
foreign)
Future Plans: Aims
4-6 researchers submitted to UoA 61 for the next RAE (or equivalent) and achieving a 5* rating
1 successful major (>£100,000 to UoW) external funding project per year
Successful management and completion of external projects
Information Science MSc options
Future Plans: Aims
Wider dissemination of general research skills within SCIT and the University
Business partnerships leading to the commercial exploitation of new research
A key player in a winning team
Any Questions?
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