Publications

Early indicators of scientific impact: Predicting citations with altmetrics

Identifying important scholarly literature at an early stage is vital to the academic research community and other stakeholders such as …
Akhil Pandey Akella, Hamed Alhoori, Pavan Ravikanth Kondamudi, Cole Freeman, Haiming Zhou
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Evaluating the Effects of Acid Fracture Etching Patterns on Conductivity Estimation Using Machine Learning Techniques

The successful design of an acid fracture job requires accurate prediction of fractured well productivity. Productivity estimation …
Mahmoud Desouky, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, Hamed Alhoori, Dhafer Al-Shehri
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Measuring the Diversity of Facebook Reactions to Research

Online and in the real world, communities are bonded together by emotional consensus around core issues. Emotional responses to …
Cole Freeman, Hamed Alhoori, Murtuza Shahzad
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Data-Driven Acid Fracture Conductivity Correlations Honoring Different Mineralogy and Etching Patterns

Acid-fracturing operations are mainly applied in tight carbonate formations to create a highly conductive path. Estimating the …
Mahmoud Desouky, Zeeshan Tariq, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, Hamed Alhoori, Mohamed Mahmoud, Dhafer AlShehri
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Analyzing Twitter Bot Activity on Academic Articles

Given its ascendancy as a way to make connections worldwide, social media is affecting all areas of people’s lives. This paper focuses …
Ashiqur Rahman, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi, Simon Shulgan, Rui Zhang, Ehsan Mohammadi, Hamed Alhoori
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Shared Feelings: Understanding Facebook Reactions to Scholarly Articles

Research on social-media platforms has tended to rely on textual analysis to perform research tasks. While text-based approaches have …
Cole Freeman, Mrinal Kanti Roy, Michele Fattoruso, Hamed Alhoori
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Predicting Patent Citations to Measure Economic Impact of Scholarly Research

A crucial goal of funding research and development has always been to advance economic development. On this basis, a considerable body …
Abdul Rahman Shaikh, Hamed Alhoori
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Using Arabic Tweets to Understand Drug Selling Behaviors

Twitter is a popular platform for e-commerce in the Arab region including the sale of illegal goods and services. Social media …
Wesam Alruwaili, Bradley Protano, Tejasvi Sirigiriraju, Hamed Alhoori
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Anatomy of scholarly information behavior patterns in the wake of academic social media platforms

As more scholarly content is born digital or converted to a digital format, digital libraries are becoming increasingly vital to …
Hamed Alhoori, Mohammed Samaka, Richard Furuta, Edward A. Fox
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Using a Recommendation System to Support Problem Solving and Case-Based Reasoning Retrieval

In case library learning environments, learners are presented with an array of narratives that can be used to guide their problem …
Andrew A. Tawfik, Hamed Alhoori, Charles Wayne Keene, Christian Bailey, Maureen Hogan
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Using Social Media and Scholarly Text to Predict Public Understanding of Science

People often struggle to understand scientific texts, which leads to miscommunication and often to inaccurate and even sensationalistic …
Harish Varma Siravuri, Akhil Pandey Akella, Christian Bailey, Hamed Alhoori
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Exploring Features for Predicting Policy Citations

In this study we performed an initial investigation and evaluation of altmetrics and their relationship with public policy citation of …
Christian Bailey, Bharat Kale, Jamieson Walker, Harish Varma Siravuri, Hamed Alhoori, Michael E. Papka
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What makes a research article newsworthy?

There has been tremendous growth in the amount of scientific literature being published every year. Yet, very little of it receives …
Harish Varma Siravuri, Hamed Alhoori
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Recommendation of scholarly venues based on dynamic user interests

The ever-growing number of venues publishing academic work makes it difficult for researchers to identify venues that publish data and …
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta
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Predicting Research That Will Be Cited in Policy Documents

Scientific publications and other genres of research output are increasingly being cited in policy documents. Citations in documents of …
Bharat Kale, Harish Varma Siravuri, Hamed Alhoori, Michael E. Papka
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Pokémon Go: Impact on Yelp Restaurant Reviews

Pokémon Go, the popular Augmented Reality based mobile application, launched in July of 2016. The game’s meteoric rise in usage …
Pavan Ravikanth Kondamudi, Bradley Protano, Hamed Alhoori
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How to Identify Specialized Research Communities Related to a Researcher’s Changing Interests

Scholarly events and venues are increasing rapidly in number. This poses a challenge for researchers who seek to identify events and …
Hamed Alhoori
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On the relationship between open access and altmetrics

A new and diverse set of online metrics are emerging to capture the effects of the sharing and discussion of research articles on …
Hamed Alhoori, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Tarek Kanan, Richard Furuta, Edward A Fox, C Lee Giles
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Mining, Modeling, and Leveraging Multidimensional Web Metrics to Support Scholarly Communities

The significant proliferation of scholarly output and the emergence of multidisciplinary research areas are rendering the research …
Hamed Alhoori
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Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?

Changes are occurring in scholarly communication as scientific discourse and research activities spread across various social media …
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta
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Electronic Library Institute-seerq (elisq)

Edward Alan Fox, Hamed Alhoori, Tarek Kanan, Sagnik Raychoudhury, Mohammed Samaka, Richard Furuta, Lee Giles, Krishna Roychowdhury, Sumaya Al-maadeed, John Impagliazzo, Susan Lukesh, Myrna Tabet, Asad Nafees
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Altmetrics for Country-Level Research Assessment

Changes are occurring in scholarly communication and the geography of science.Policymakersand research funding agencies are looking for …
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta, Myrna Tabet, Mohammed Samaka, Edward A. Fox
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Digital Library Initiative: A Project for Educators in Qatar

This article presents the first phase of an exciting initiative in the Arabian Gulf State of Qatar that brings together four academic …
Myrna Tabet, Tarek Kanan, Hamed Alhoori, Susan S. Lukesh, Carole Thompson, Edward A. Fox, Mohammed Samaka
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The Evolution of Scholarly Digital Library Needs in an International Environment: Social Reference Management Systems and Qatar

Qatar has become an active research producer of data, publications, and other scholarly works. We studied the evolving scholarly …
Hamed Alhoori, Carole Thompson, Richard Furuta, John Impagliazzo, Edward A. Fox, Mohammed Samaka, Somaya Al-Maadeed
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Identifying the Real-time impact of the Digital Humanities using Social Media Measures

Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta
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Can Social Reference Management Systems Predict a Ranking of Scholarly Venues?

New scholarly venues (e.g., conferences and journals) are emerging as research fields expand. Ranking these new venues is imperative to …
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta
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Understanding the Dynamic Scholarly Research Needs and Behavior as Applied to Social Reference Management

We conducted a study with an objective to learn more about the dynamic information needs, information-seeking behavior, information use …
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta
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Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Social Collaboration

Hamed Alhoori, Omar Alvarez, Miguel Muniz, Richard Furuta, Eduardo Urbina

Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration

Bibliographic digital libraries play a significant role in conducting research and, in the past few years, have started to move from …
Hamed Alhoori, Omar Alvarez, Richard Furuta, Miguel Muñiz, Eduardo Urbina
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Evaluating Digital Libraries through Pedagogical and Technological Concepts: The Case of Cibo/Cervantes International Bibliography from Cervantes Project

J Muniz Apresa, E Urbina, R Furuta, H Alhoori, O Alvarez

\"El texto como hipertexto: la edición variorum del Quijote\"

Eduardo Urbina, Richard Furuta, Hamed Alhoori, Jie Deng, Ana Claudia Hernández
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Building Digital Communities and Supporting Collaboration in a Humanities Digital Library

New Web technologies could enhance collaboration within humanities digital libraries. We have investigated possible extensions to the …
Hamed Alhoori, Omar Alvarez, Richard Furuta, Du Li, Eduardo Urbina