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 …

A scientometric overview of CORD-19

G Colavizza, R Costas, VA Traag, NJ van Eck… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, researchers from all disciplines are coming together
and contributing their expertise. CORD-19, a dataset of COVID-19 and coronavirus …

A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals

W Huang, P Wang, Q Wu - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
This study considered all articles published in six Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals
in 2012 and Web of Science citations for these articles as of May 2015. A total of 2,406 …

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 …

Studying the accumulation velocity of altmetric data tracked by Altmetric. com

Z Fang, R Costas - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
This paper investigates the data accumulation velocity of 12 Altmetric. com data sources.
DOI created date recorded by Crossref and altmetric event posted date tracked by Altmetric …

Social media metrics for new research evaluation

P Wouters, Z Zahedi, R Costas - Springer handbook of science and …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter approaches, from both a theoretical and practical perspective, the most
important principles and conceptual frameworks that can be considered in the application of …

Using altmetrics for contextualised map** of societal impact: From hits to networks

N Robinson-Garcia, TN van Leeuwen… - Science and public …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we develop a method that uses altmetric data to analyse researchers'
interactions, as a way of map** the contexts of potential societal impact. In the face of an …

Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication

JL Ortega - Profesional de la información, 2020 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
The aim of this paper is to review the current and most relevant literature on the use of
altmetric providers since 2012. This review is supported by a meta-analysis of the coverage …

Identifying diffusion patterns of research articles on Twitter: A case study of online engagement with open access articles

JP Alperin, CJ Gomez… - Public Understanding of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The growing presence of research shared on social media, coupled with the increase in
freely available research, invites us to ask whether scientific articles shared on platforms like …