What do computer scientists tweet? Analyzing the link-sharing practice on Twitter
Authors : Marco Schmitt, Robert Jäschke Twitter communication has permeated every sphere of society. To highlight and share small pieces of information with pos...
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The unbearable emptiness of tweeting — About journal articles
Authors : Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Kimberley Isett, Julia Melkers, Diana Hicks Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sc...
Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation
Authors : Matthew L Williams, Pete Burnap, Luke Sloan New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as Twitter, have be...
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
Authors : Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used ...
Networks of digital humanities scholars: The informational and social uses and gratifications of Twitter
Authors : Anabel Quan-Haase, Kim Martin, Lori McCay-Peet Big Data research is currently split on whether and to what extent Twitter can be characterized as an i...
Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later
Author : Ronald Snijder An experiment run in 2009 could not assess whether making monographs available in open access enhanced scholarly impact. This paper revi...
Twittering About Research: A Case Study of the World’s First Twitter Poster Competition
Authors : Edward P. Randviir, Samuel M. Illingworth, Matthew J. Baker, Matthew Cude, Craig E. Banks The Royal Society of Chemistry held, to our knowledge, the w...