To be or not to be on Twitter, and its relationship with the tweeting and citation of research papers
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- First Online:
- 26 August 2016
DOI:
10.1007/s11192-016-2113-0
10.1007/s11192-016-2113-0
- Cite this article as:
- Ortega, J.L. Scientometrics (2016). doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2113-0
Abstract
The
objective of this paper is to understand the relationship between the
diffusion and mention of research papers in Twitter according to whether
their authors are members or not of that micro-blogging service. To
that end, 4166 articles from 76 Twitter users and 124 from non-Twitter
users were analysed. Data on Twitter mentions were extracted from PlumX
Analytics, information on each Twitter user was taken from the own
platform and citations were collected from Scopus public API. Results
show that papers from Twitter users are 33 % more tweeted than documents
of non-Twitter users. From Twitter users, the increase of followers
produces 30 % more tweets. No differences were found between the
citation impact (i.e. number of citations) of papers authored by Twitter
users and non-Twitter users. However, the number of followers
indirectly influences the citation impact. The main conclusion is that
the participation on Twitter affects the dissemination of research
papers, and in consequence, it indirectly favours the likelihood that
academic outputs being cited.
objective of this paper is to understand the relationship between the
diffusion and mention of research papers in Twitter according to whether
their authors are members or not of that micro-blogging service. To
that end, 4166 articles from 76 Twitter users and 124 from non-Twitter
users were analysed. Data on Twitter mentions were extracted from PlumX
Analytics, information on each Twitter user was taken from the own
platform and citations were collected from Scopus public API. Results
show that papers from Twitter users are 33 % more tweeted than documents
of non-Twitter users. From Twitter users, the increase of followers
produces 30 % more tweets. No differences were found between the
citation impact (i.e. number of citations) of papers authored by Twitter
users and non-Twitter users. However, the number of followers
indirectly influences the citation impact. The main conclusion is that
the participation on Twitter affects the dissemination of research
papers, and in consequence, it indirectly favours the likelihood that
academic outputs being cited.
Keywords
Twitter, Altmetrics, PlumX Analytics, Citation impact, Research disseminationReference:
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7(4), 120–125.CrossRef
& Motahar, S. M. (2014). Visibility and citation impact. International Education Studies,
7(4), 120–125.CrossRef
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