Michael Arijan Thelwal

Professor Thelwall is head of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, Docent at the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His current research field includes identifying and analysing web phenomena using quantitative-led research methods, primarily link analysis and blog analysis, and he has pioneered an information science approach to link analysis. Mike has developed a wide range of tools for gathering and analysing web data, including hyperlink analysis, sentiment analysis and content analysis for Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, blogs and the web in general. Mike has authored 152 refereed journal articles and 2 books. He sits on five editorial boards.