Science and Facebook: the same popularity law!
Authors : Zoltán Néda, Levente Varga, Tamás S. Biró The distribution of scientific citations for publications selected with different rules (author, topic, inst...
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Anatomy of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in the Wake of Social Media
Authors : Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta, Mohammed Samaka, Edward A. Fox As more scholarly content is being born digital or digitized, digital libraries are beco...
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, ...
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)...