Tweets Do Measure Non – Citational Intellectual Impact
Purpose The aim of the paper is to identify the motive behind the social media indicators in focus to tweets and attempts to identify what is measured or indica...
Étiquette : twitter
Are there birds in the library? The extent of Twitter adoption and use by Canadian academic libraries
“Twitter, only eight years old, has emerged as an ever-present component of our everyday, online lives. This phenomenon is apparent in academic libraries ...
Transformation of Science Communication in the Age of Social Media
The aim of the present article is to discuss several consequences of the Open Science from a perspective of science communication and philosophy of communicatio...
Tweets & science
Le temps passé sur les réseaux sociaux augmente régulièrement (en 2012, 18% du temps online). Si le temps moyen des visites sur Twitter est encore faible (21min...
The role of twitter in the life cycle…
The role of twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication : “Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform for short messages that can have a ...
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
Background Citations in peer-reviewed articles and the impact factor are generally accepted measures of scientific impact. Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, blogs ...
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...