Dr Lim Kwan Hui has been appointed Associate Editor for the journal Social Network Analysis and Mining.

Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) is a prominent Springer Nature journal focused on multidisciplinary research covering social network analysis, mining, and social media analytics. It serves as a key venue for theoretical and experimental work from computer science, sociology, physics, and mathematics. Key topics include community detection, sentiment analysis, user behaviour, information diffusion, and security. The journal is indexed in major databases like Scopus and consistently receives a high impact factor, placing it in the Q1 quartile according to SCImago.

Dr Lim’s appointment highlights his influential role in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and social computing. His contributions span data mining, machine learning, social computing and urban analytics, earning him recognition as one of the world’s top 2% scientists in artificial intelligence from 2022 to 2025. Through this appointment, Dr Lim will further advance data-driven understanding of complex social systems by overseeing the peer-review process and ensuring the quality and impact of the journal.