publications

BOOKS (Monographs or Edited Collections)

  • Jensen, U., Netscher, S., & Weller, K.  (Eds.) (2019): Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten
    Grundlagen und praktische Lösungen für den Umgang mit quantitativen Forschungsdaten. Berlin, Opladen, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich. (ISBN: 978-3-8474-2233-4 , DOI: 10.3224/84742233). (ebook CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Twitter and SocietyWeller, K., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., & Puschmann, C. (Eds.) (2014). Twitter and Society. New York et al.: Peter Lang. (ISBN: 978-1-4331-2169-2) [ebook CC-BY-NC-SA]
  • Weller, K. (2010). Knowledge Representation in the Social Semantic Web. (Knowledge and Information, Vol. 3). Berlin: De Gruyter, Saur. (ISBN 978-3-598-44158-5)

PROCEEDINGS (Editor)

  • Dadzie, Aba-Sah, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Danica Radovanović, Amparo E. Cano Basave, and Katrin Weller, ed. 2016. Making Sense of Microposts – Big Things come in Small Packages: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on ‘Making Sense of Microposts’, co-located with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016). 1691. Aachen: CEUR. urn: urn:nbn:de:0074-1691-8. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1691/.
  • Tokar, A., Beurskens, M., Keuneke, S., Mahrt, M., Peters, I., Puschmann, C., van Treeck, T., Weller, K. (2012). Science and the Internet. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. (ISBN 978-3-943460-16-2)
  • Ockenfeld, M., Peters, I., & Weller, K. (Eds.) (2012). Social Media & Web Science. Das Web als Lebensraum. Proceedings der 2. DGI-Konferenz, 64. Jahrestagung der DGI. Frankfurt a. M.: DGI. (ISBN 978-3-925474-72-9)
  • Peters, I., Puschmann, C., Trkulja, V., & Weller, K. (Eds.) (2010). Social Software @ Work. Collaborative Work, Communication and Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop. Düsseldorf, Germany, September 28th and 29th, 2009. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 591).

GUEST EDITOR FOR JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

  • Bruns, A., & Weller, K. (2014). Twitter Data Analytics. Special issue of ASLIB Journal of Information Managment, 66(3).
  • Weller, K., & Strohmaier, M. (2014). Social Media in Academia. Special issue of it Information Technology, 56(5).
  • Weller, K., & Peters, I. (Eds.) (2010). Generation International. Die Zukunft von Information, Wissenschaft und Profession. Information – Wissenschaft und Praxis, 61 (2) [Special issue, Young Information Professionals Day, DGI-Tagung 2009].

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Zagovora, O., Ulloa, R., Weller, K., & Flöck, F. (2022). ‘I updated the <ref>’: The evolution of references in the English wikipedia and the implications for altmetrics. Quantitative Science Studies 3 (1): 147-173. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00171 
  • Sen, I., Flöck, F., Weller, K., Weiß, B., & Wagner, C. (2021). A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms. Public Opinion Quarterly. Volume 85, Issue S1, 2021, Pages 399–422, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfab018
  • Kinder-Kurlanda, K.E., & Weller, K. (2020). Perspective: Acknowledging Data Work in the Social Media Research Lifecycle. Frontiers in Big Data 3:509954. doi: 10.3389/fdata.2020.509954
  • Kinder-Kurlanda, K.E., Weller, K., Zenk-Möltgen, W., Pfeffer, J., & Morstatter, F. (2017). Archiving Information from Geotagged Tweets to Promote Reproducibility and Comparability in Social Media Research. Big Data & Society 4 (2): 1-14. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951717736336.
  • Weller, K. (2016). Trying to understand social media users and usage: The forgotten features of social media platforms. Online Information Review, 40(2), pp.256-264. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/OIR-09-2015-0299
  • Weller, K. (2015). Accepting the challenges of social media research. Online Information Review, 39(3), 281-289. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03-2015-0069
  • Weller, K. (2014). What do we get from Twitter – and What Not? A Close Look at Twitter Research in the Social Sciences. Knowledge Organization 41(3), 238-248.
  • Stock, W. G., Peters, I., & Weller, K. (2010). Social Semantic Corporate Digital Libraries: Joining Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management. In A. Woodsworth (Ed.), Advances in Librarianship, Volume 32 (pp. 137–158). Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
  • Weller, K. (2009). Ontologien: Stand und Entwicklung der Semantik für das World Wide Web. LIBREAS – Library Ideas, 5(2/15).
  • Klein, R.N., Beutelspacher, L., Hauk, K., Terp, C., Anuschewski, D., Zensen, C., Trkulja, V., & Weller, K. (2009): Informationskompetenz in Zeiten des Web 2.0. Chancen und Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Social Software. Information – Wissenschaft und Praxis, 60 (3), 129–142.
  • Peters, I., & Weller, K. (2008). Tag Gardening for Folksonomy Enrichment and Maintenance. Webology, 5(3).
  • Weller, K., & Stock, W. G. (2008). Transitive Meronymy: Automatic Concept-based Query Expansion Using Weighted Transitive Part-Whole Relations. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, 59(3), 165–170.
  • Mainz, I., Weller, K., Paulsen, I., Mainz, D., Kohl, J., & von Haeseler, A. (2008). Ontoverse: Collaborative Ontology Engineering for the Life Sciences. Information – Wissenschaft und Praxis, 59(2), 91–99.
  • Peters, I., & Weller, K. (2008). Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Knowledge Organization Systems. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, 59(2), 100–107.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N., Balicki, G., Bestakowa, L., Bocatius, B., Braun, J., Brehmer, L., Brune, V., Eigmeier, K., Erdem, F., Fritscher, R., Jacobs, A., Klingsporn, B., Konsinski, M., Kuntze, J., Lee, J.-R., Osterhage, A., Probost, M., Risch, T., Schmitt, T., Stock, W. G., Sturm, A., Weller, K., & Werner, K. (2005). Science and Technology in the Region: The Output of Regional Science and Technology, its Strengths and its Leading Institutions. Scientometrics, 63(3), 463–529.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Sen, Indira, Fabian Flöck, Katrin Weller, Bernd Weiß, and Claudia Wagner. 2022. “Applying a total error framework for digital traces to social media research.” In Handbook of Computational Social Science. Volume 2: Data science, statistical modelling, and machine learning methods, edited by Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu, and Lars Lyberg, 127-139. Routledge.
  • Weller, Katrin (2019). Big Data & New Data: ein Ausblick auf die Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Social-Media-Inhalten als neue Art von Forschungsdaten. In Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten: Grundlagen und praktische Lösungen für den Umgang mit quantitativen Forschungsdaten, 193-210. Berlin, Opladen, Toronto: Barbara Budrich. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/84742233.12.
  • Weller, Katrin, and Isabella Peters (2017). “Scholarly Communication in Social Media.” In The SAGE Handbook on Social Media, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, and Thomas Poell, 592-613.
  • Weller, Katrin, and Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda (2017). “To Share or Not to Share?: Ethical Challenges in Sharing Social Media-based Research Data.” In Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age, edited by Michael Zimmer, and Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, 115-129. New York u.a.: Peter Lang.
  • Mayr, Philipp, and Katrin Weller (2017). “Think before you collect: Setting up a data collection approach for social media studies.” In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods, edited by Luke Sloan, and Anabel Quan-Haase, 107-124.
  • Weller, K (2016). “The digital traces of user-generated content: how social media data may become the historical sources of the futur.” In Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval, edited by Allen Foster, and Pauline Rafferty, 61-86. http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049412#about-tab.
  • Weller, K. (2015). Social Media and Altmetrics: An Overview of Current Alternative Approaches to Measuring Scholarly Impact. In: Welpe, I. M.; Wollersheim, J.; Ringelhan, S.; Osterloh, M. (Eds.), Incentives and Performance – Governance of Research Organizations (pp. 261-276). Springer
  • Weller, K. (2014). Twitter und Wahlen: Zwischen 140 Zeichen und Milliarden von Tweets. In: R. Reichert (Ed.), Big Data: Analysen zum digitalen Wandel von Wissen, Macht und Ökonomie (pp. 239-257). Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Rahlf, T., & Weller, K. (2014). Visualisierung großer Datenmengen aus Social Media Diensten. In: König, C., Stahl, M., Wiegand, E. (Eds.) Soziale Medien: Gegenstand und Instrument der Forschung (pp. 137-160). Wiesbaden: Springer.
  • Weller, K,, Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., & Puschmann, C. (2014). Twitter and society: An introduction. In: K.Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt and C. Puschmann (Eds.), Twitter and Society (pp. xxix-xxxviii). New York et al.: Peter Lang. Download PDF (BY-NC-SA): Twitter and Society – Introduction (2014)
  • Bruns, A., Weller, K., & Harrington, S. (2014). Twitter and Sports: Football Fandom in Emerging and Established Markets. In: K.Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt and C. Puschmann (Eds.), Twitter and Society (pp. 263-280). New York et al.: Peter Lang. Download PDF (BY-NC-SA): Twitter and Society – Twitter and Sports (2014)
  • Mahrt, M., Weller, K., & Peters, I. (2014). Twitter in scholarly communication. In: K.Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt and C. Puschmann (Eds.), Twitter and Society (pp. 399-410). New York et al.: Peter Lang. Download PDF (BY-NC-SA): Twitter and Society – Scholarly Communication (2014)
  • Puschmann, C., Bruns, A., Mahrt, M., Weller, K., & Burgess, J. (2014). Epilogue: Why study Twitter?. In: K.Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt and C. Puschmann (Eds.), Twitter and Society (pp. 425-432). New York et al.: Peter Lang. Download PDF (BY-NC-SA): Twitter and Society – Epilogue (2014)
  • Weller, K. (2013). Ontologien. In R. Kuhlen, W. Semar, & D. Strauch (Eds.), Grundlagen der praktischen Information und Dokumentation (6. ed.) (pp. 207-218). München: de Gruyter Saur. ISBN 978-3-11-025826-4. Download: GdPIuD_B6_Weller_Ontologien
  • Thelwall, M., Kousha, K., Weller, K., & Puschmann, C. (2012). Assessing the Impact of Online Academic Videos. In Gunilla Widen & Kim Holmberg (Eds.), Social Information Research (Library and Information Science series). Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1876-0562(2012)0000005011
  • Weller, K., Peters, I., & Stock, W. G. (2009). Folksonomy. The Collaborative Knowledge Organization System. In Tatyana Dumova & Richard Fiordo (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaborative Software: Concepts and Trends (pp. 132–146). Hershey, New York: IGI Publishing.

PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (peer reviewed)

  • Zagovora, Olga, Katrin Weller, Milan Janosov, Claudia Wagner, and Isabella Peters (2018). “What increases (social) media attention: Research impact, author prominence or title attractiveness?.” In STI 2018 Conference Proceedings, 1182-1190. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mwxye. urn: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/65362.
  • Samoilenko, Anna, Florian Lemmerich, Katrin Weller, Maria Zens, and Markus Strohmaier (2017). “Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: a Comparative Computational Approach.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017), Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 15-18, 2017, 210-219. Ann Arbor, MI: AAAI Press. https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15618.
  • Bruns, A., & Weller, K. (2016). Twitter as a First Draft of the Present – and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future. In Proceedings of ACM Web Science Conference 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908174 (view full text (authors’ version) at SSOAR).
  • Weller, K., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K.E. (2016). A Manifesto for Data Sharing in Social Media Research. In Proceedings of ACM Web Science Conference 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908172 (open access at ACM portal). See  also our presentation slides: WebSci16_Weller+Kinder.
  • Weller, Katrin, and Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda (2014). ““I love thinking about ethics!” Perspectives on ethics in social media research.” Internet Research (IR15), Deagu, South Korea, 22.-24.10.2014. Paper to be published in Selected Papers of Internet Research, view preprint HiddenDataEthics_Weller+Kinder-Kurlanda_IR15-preprint.
  • Kinder-Kurlanda, K. E.; Weller, K. (2014). “I always feel it must be great to be a Hacker!”: The role of interdisciplinary work in social media research. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference WebSci’14, June 23–26, 2014, Bloomington, IN, USA, pp. 91-98. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2615569.2615685. View preprint version hiddendata_websci14-preprint_Kinder-Kurlanda+Weller(2014).
  • Weller, K. & Bruns, A. (2013). Friends or followers? The relations between German soccer clubs and their fans on Twitter. In: Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). Proceedings of ir14 – Resistence and Appropriation, Denver. Download PDF: German-Soccer-Clubs-Twitter_Weller+Bruns2013
  • Peters, I., Stock, W. G., & Weller, K. (2010). Joining Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management in Digital Libraries. In D. C. Kar et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2010), Delhi, India (pp. 659–675). New Delhi: TERI Press.
  • Weller, K., & Peters, I. (2008). Seeding, Weeding, Fertilizing: Different Tag Gardening Activites for Folksonomy Maintenance and Enrichment. In S. Auer, S. Schaffert & T. Pellegrini (Eds.), Proceedings of I-Semantics, International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria (pp. 110–117). Graz: JUCS.
  • Mainz, D., Paulsen, I., Mainz, I., Weller, K., Kohl, J., & von Haeseler, A. (2008). Knowledge Acquisition Focused Cooperative Development of Bio-Ontologies: A Case Study with BIO2Me. In M. Elloumi, et al. (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science: Vol. 13. Bioinformatics Research and Development. Second International Conference, BIRD 2008. Vienna, Austria (pp. 258–272). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Weller, K. (2007). Folksonomies and Ontologies: Two New Players in Indexing and Knowledge Representation. In H. Jezzard (Ed.), Applying Web 2.0: Innovation, Impact and Implementation. Proceedings of the Online Information Conference, London, Great Britain (pp. 108–115). London: Learned Information Europe Ltd. 

PAPERS IN WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS (peer reviewed)

  • Zagovora, Olga, and Katrin Weller (2018). “YouTube videos as a place for public discussion of science?.” In The 2018 Altmetrics Workshop, 1-16. (read preprint)
  • Weller, K., & Kinder-Kurlanda, K.E. (2015). Uncovering the Challenges in Collection, Sharing and Documentation: The Hidden Data of Social Media Research? In Standards and Practices in Large-Scale Social Media Research: Papers from the 2015 ICWSM Workshop. Proceedings Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media Oxford University, May 26, 2015 – May 29, 2015, 28-37. Ann Arbor, MI: AAAI Press. 
  • Weller, K, & Bruns, A. (2013). Das Spiel dauert 140 Zeichen: Wie deutsche Fußballvereine Twitter für Marketing und Fan-Kommunikation entdecken. In: Griesbaum, Joachim; Heuwing, Ben; Ruppenhofer, Josef; Werner, Katrin (Hrsg.): HiER 2013. Proceedings des 8. Hildesheimer Evaluierungs- und Retrievalworkshop, Hildesheim: Universität Hildesheim, S. 119-131.
  • Weller, K., & Peters, I. (2012). Citations in Web 2.0. In A. Tokar et al., Science and the Internet (pp. 209-222). Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press.
  • Weller, K., Dornstädter, R., Freimanis, R., Klein, R.N., Perez, M. (2011). Social Software in Forschung und Lehre. Drei Studien zum Einsatz von Web 2.0 Diensten. In. S. Schomburg, C. Leggewie, H. Lobin, & C. Puschmann (Eds.), Digitale Wissenschaft: Stand und Entwicklung digital vernetzter Forschung in Deutschland (pp. 89–97). HBZ: Köln.
  • Weller, K., Dröge, E., & Puschmann, C. (2011). Citation Analysis in Twitter: Approaches for Defining and Measuring Information Flows within Tweets during Scientific Conferences. In M. Rowe, M. Stankovic, A.-S. Dadzie, & M. Hardey (Eds.), Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011), Workshop at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Crete, Greece (pp. 1–12). CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 718.
  • Weller, K. (2008). KOSO: A Reference-Ontology for Reuse of Existing Knowledge Organization Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Semantic Web (KRRSW 08), ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Spain (pp. 31–40).

PAPERS IN PROCEEDINGS (peer reviewed, German)

  • Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-Kommunikation bei wisseschaftlichen Konferenzen. In J. Griesbaum, T. Mandl, C. Womser-Hacker (Eds.), Information und Wissen: global, sozial und frei? Proceedings des 12. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenchaft (pp. 98–110). Boizenburg: VWH.
  • Weller, K. (2010). Anforderungen an die Wissensrepräsentation im Social Semantic Web. In M. Ockenfeld (Ed.), Semantic Web und Linked Data: Elemente zukünftiger Informationsinfrastrukturen. 1. DGI-Konferenz, 62. Jahrestagung der DGI, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (pp. 33–42). Frankfurt am Main: DGI.
  • Dittmann, C., Dittmann, M., Peters, I., & Weller, K. (2009). Persönliches Tag Gardening mit tagCare. In M. Ockenfeld (Ed.), Generation international – die Zukunft von Information, Wissenschaft und Profession. Proceedings der 31. Online-Tagung der DGI, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (pp. 117–128). Frankfurt am Main: DGI.
  • Peters, I., Gust von Loh, S., & Weller, K. (2009). Multimediale und kollaborative Lehr- und Lernumgebungen in der akademischen Ausbildung. In R. Kuhlen (Ed.), Information: Droge, Ware oder Commons? Wertschöpfungs- und Transformationsprozesse auf den Informationsmärkten. Proceedings des 11. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2009), Konstanz, Germany (pp. 363–377). Boizenburg: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch.

  • El Jerroudi, Z., Weinbrenner, S., Mainz, D., & Weller, K. (2008). Kollaborative Ontologieentwicklung mit interaktiver visueller Unterstützung. In M. Herczeg & M. C. Kindsmüller (Eds.), Mensch & Computer 2008. Proceedings der 8. fachübergreifenden Konferenz für interaktive und kooperative Medien: Viel mehr Interaktion, Lübeck, Germany (pp. 87–96). München: Oldenbourg.
  • Weller, K., Mainz, D., Mainz, I., & Paulsen, I. (2007). Semantisches und vernetztes Wissensmanagement für Forschung und Wissenschaft. In R. Ball (Ed.), Wissenschaftskommunikation der Zukunft. Proceedings der 4. Konferenz der Zentralbibliothek Forschungszentrum Jülich (WissKom 2007), Jülich, Germany (pp. 33–46). Jülich: Forschungszentrum Jülich.
  • Weller, K., Mainz, D., Mainz, I., & Paulsen, I. (2007). Wissenschaft 2.0? Social Software im Einsatz für die Wissenschaft. In M. Ockenfeld (Ed.), Information in Wissenschaft, Bildung und Wirtschaft. Proceedings der 29. Online-Tagung der DGI, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (pp. 121–136). Frankfurt am Main: DGI.
  • Paulsen, I., Mainz, D., Weller, K., Mainz, I., Kohl, J., & von Haeseler, A. (2007). Ontoverse: Collaborative Knowledge Management in the Life Science Network. In Proceedings of the German eScience Conference (GES 2007), Baden Baden, Germany. Max Planck Digital Library, ID 316588.0.
  • Weller, K. (2006). Kooperativer Ontologieaufbau. In M. Ockenfeld (Ed.), Content. Proceedings der 28. Online Tagung der DGI, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (pp. 227–234). Frankfurt am Main: DGI.
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POSTERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (peer reviewed / short papers)

WORKING PAPERS

MAGISTER’S THESIS

  • Weller, K. (2005). Britische Filmpropaganda während des Zweiten Weltkrieges [British film propaganda during World War II]. Magisterarbeit zur Erlangung des Grades Magistra Artium der Philosophischen Fakultät der Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf. Oktober 2005. [Magister thesis at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. October 2005.]

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS (peer reviewed, without published papers)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Additional, non-reviewd publications can be found here (including the “Social Media” series for the Journal “PASSWORD”).

  • Kraker, Peter, Katrin Weller, Isabella Peters, and Elisabeth Lex. 2015. Bringing together bibliometrics research from different disciplines – what can we learn from each other?: LSE Impact Blog. LSE Impact Blog. (read online)
  • Weller, K., Meckel, M. S., & Stahl, M. (2013): Social Media. Recherche Spezial (1/2013). (Download PDF)
  • Klimpel, P., & Keiper, J. (Eds.) (2013): Was bleibt. Nachhaltigkeit der Kultur in der digitalen Welt. Ergebnisse der 8. Initiative des HIIG Co:llaboratory. (view online, ISBN: 978-3-944362-03-8)