Tracking the Digital Footprints to Scholarly Articles from Social Media
Authors : Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo Scholarly articles are discussed and shared on social media, which generates altmetrics. On the opposite side, ...
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Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns
« A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research ...
Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact
In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nat...
Trends in Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Dissemination in the Age of Online Social Media
It is no secret that Online Social Media (OSM) has become mainstream in recent years, and their adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of their growing popularit...
Social media: A guide for researchers : …
Social media: A guide for researchers : « Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general)...
How and why scholars cite on Twitter
Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we...