Timothy D. Bowman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences. Prior to joining the SIS faculty, Timothy completed a one year postdoctoral position at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education (RUSE) at the University of Turku, Finland where he conducted research on open science, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, and altmetrics. Before this he worked as a research professional at the Universitè de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada investigating scholarly communication, bibliometrics, citation analysis, and altmetrics. While completing his Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington, Timothy taught multiple graduate level courses as an adjunct faculty member and participated in various NSF and NEH funded grant projects in the fields of Digital Humanities and Scholarly Communication. His area of research interest includes applying social, psychological, linguistic, and philosophical theories and methods to the study of scholarly communication, altmetrics, open science, the academic reward system, and the presentation of self in online environments. Timothy enjoys teaching both technical and theoretical courses and applying the lessons he learned while working outside of academia to prepare his students to succeed after obtaining their degree.

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Responsibilities

2022-2023

• SIS Student Technology GSA Supervisor
• SIS Administrative Concerns Committee
• SIS Undergraduate Program Committee
• SIS Accreditation Committee
• SIS MSIM Committee
• University Inclusive Excellence Committee
• University Research Technology Advsiory Council

Degrees and Certifications

• Ph.D., Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (2015).
• M.I.S., School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (2001).
• B.S., Psychology (Neuropsychology), Indiana State University, Terre Haute (1999).

Awards and Honors

•  2015. Outstanding Poster Award, 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, Istanbul, Turkey.

Academic Interests

• Altmetrics
• Scholarly Communication
• Open Science
• Academic Reward System
• Social Networks
• Social Media
• Digital Humanities

Areas of Expertise

• Scholarly Communication, Bibliometrics, and Altmetrics
• Web Design, Web Application Design
• Computer Programming
• Database Administration

 Hassan, S., Aljohani, N.R., & Bowman, T.D. (2020). In Konkiel, S. (Ed.) The State of Altmetrics: A tenth anniversary celebration. London, UK: Altmetric.: https://www.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13010000

Recent Publications

• Mongeon, P., Bowman, T.D., & Costas, R. (2022). An open dataset of scholars on Twitter. arXiv:2208.11065. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.11065
   
• Bowman, T.D., Harrison, A, & Tapia-Lynch, K. (2021). The similarities and differences of vision and mission statements: A comparison of ala-accredited LIS programs and iSchools. ALISE 2021 Conference Proceedings. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110927
   
• Holmberg, K., Hedman, J., Bowman, T.D., Didegah, F. & Laasko, M. (2020). Do articles in open access journals have more frequent altmetric activity than articles in subscription-based journals? An investigation of the research output of Finnish universities. Scientometrics 122, pp. 645–659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03301-x 
   
• Holmberg, K., Bowman, T.D., Didegah, F., & Lehtimäki, J. (2019). The relationship between institutional factors, citation and altmetric counts of publications from Finnish universities. Journal of Altmetrics, 2(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.29024/joa.20
   
• Díaz-Faes, A.A., Bowman, T.D., & Costas, R. (2019). Towards a second generation of ‘social media metrics’: Characterizing the interactions of Twitter communities of attention around science. PLOS ONE, 14(5): e0216408. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216408
   
• Hassan, S., Bowman, T.D., Shabbir, M., Akhtara, A., Imran, M., & Aljohani, N.R. (2019). Influential Tweeters in Relation to Highly Cited Articles in Altmetric Big Data. Scientometrics, 119(1), pp 481-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03044-9
   
• Holmberg, K., Bowman, T.D., Didegah, F., & Laakso, M. (2019). Do articles in open access journals have higher altmetric activity than articles in subscription-based journals? An investigation of Finnish research output. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03301-x.
   
• Said, A, Bowman, T.D., Abbasi, R.A., Aljohani, N.R., Nawaz, R, & Hassan, S. (2019). Mining Network Level Properties of Twitter Altmetrics Data. Scientometrics, 120(1), pp 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03112-0

   

Research Interests

• Scholarly Communication
• Online Communication
• Reward System of Science
• Altmetrics
• Self presentation
• Identity Management
• Frame Analysis
• Affordances
• Philosophy of IT

Courses taught by Dr. Tim David Bowman

Fall Term 2023 (future)

• INF6050 - Introduction to Programming
• INF7492 - Information Visualization

Winter Term 2023 (current)

• INF6050 - Introduction to Programming
• INF7440 - Scripting Languages
• INF7491 - Data Analytics

Fall Term 2022

• INF6050 - Introduction to Programming
• INF7492 - Information Visualization

Winter Term 2022

• INF6000 - Introduction to Information Management
• INF6050 - Introduction to Programming
• INF7440 - Scripting Languages
• INF7491 - Data Analytics

Fall Term 2021

• INF4010 - Introduction to Informatics
• INF6000 - Introduction to Information Management
• INF6050 - Introduction to Computer Programming

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