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 …

Altmetrics measure the digital attention received by a research output. They allow us to
gauge the immediate social impact of an article by taking real-time measurements of how it …

In this study, we address the question whether (and to what extent, respectively) altmetrics
are related to the scientific quality of papers (as measured by peer assessments). Only a few …

Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although
altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not …

Objective Social media are increasingly used for the dissemination of scientific publications
by most medical journals. The role of social media in increasing awareness of published …

Since fandom as a distinctive customer group known for their exceptional loyalty and
profitability has increasingly gained influence, fandom marketing has become crucial for the …

This article analyses the scientific production of publications on altmetrics as an emergent
discipline for research evaluation. The research objective was to identify the investigative …

This paper presents a new method for identifying scholars who have a Twitter account from
bibliometric data from Web of Science (WoS) and Twitter data from Altmetric. com. The …

Our goal is to reveal the social media knowledge cascade (SMKC) of the diffusion of
scientific papers. PLoS Biology, one of the prestigious and influential open-access journals …

This study aimed to assess the mediating role of save, discussion, and recommendation
measures in the relationship between visibility and citation in biomedical articles in 2009 …