Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature

CR Sugimoto, S Work, V Larivière… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter

Q Ke, YY Ahn, CR Sugimoto - PLoS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are
increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts …

Scholarly twitter metrics

S Haustein - Springer handbook of science and technology …, 2019 - Springer
Twitter has unarguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of
so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early …

Academic information on Twitter: A user survey

E Mohammadi, M Thelwall, M Kwasny, KL Holmes - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Although counts of tweets citing academic papers are used as an informal indicator of
interest, little is known about who tweets academic papers and who uses Twitter to find …

Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 2: Social media metrics

M Thelwall, K Kousha - Profesional de …, 2015 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
Esta revisión bibliográfica evalúa indicadores derivados de medios sociales, tanto
generales como académicos. Tales indicadores han sido llamados, influmétricos …

User engagement with scholarly tweets of scientific papers: A large-scale and cross-disciplinary analysis

Z Fang, R Costas, P Wouters - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
This study investigates the extent to which scholarly tweets of scientific papers are engaged
with by Twitter users through four types of user engagement behaviors, ie, liking, retweeting …

Highly tweeted science articles: who tweets them? An analysis of Twitter user profile descriptions

J Vainio, K Holmberg - Scientometrics, 2017 - Springer
In this study we examined who tweeted academic articles that had at least one Finnish
author or co-author affiliation and that had high altmetric counts on Twitter. In this …

Social media and altmetrics: An overview of current alternative approaches to measuring scholarly impact

K Weller - Incentives and performance: Governance of research …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter describes the current state of the art in altmetrics research and practice.
Altmetrics—evaluation methods of scholarly activities that serve as alternatives to citation …

How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications

Z Fang, R Costas, W Tian, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To provide some context for the potential engagement behavior of Twitter users around
science, this article investigates how Bitly short links to scientific publications embedded in …

Cross-platform comparison of framed topics in Twitter and Weibo: machine learning approaches to social media text mining

Y Yang, JH Hsu, K Löfgren, W Cho - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2021 - Springer
While the salience of social media platforms on modern interactive communication between
diverse social actors has been demonstrated, less academic attention has been paid to …