Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast-moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a “scientometrics 2.0.”
%0 Journal Article
%1 priem2010scholars
%A Priem, Jason
%A Costello, Kaitlin Light
%D 2010
%I Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
%J Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
%K analysis cite scholar twitter
%N 1
%P 1--4
%R 10.1002/meet.14504701201
%T How and why scholars cite on Twitter
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504701201
%V 47
%X Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast-moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a “scientometrics 2.0.”
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abstract = {Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast-moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a “scientometrics 2.0.”},
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author = {Priem, Jason and Costello, Kaitlin Light},
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journal = {Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology},
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timestamp = {2013-01-24T11:42:47.000+0100},
title = {How and why scholars cite on Twitter},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504701201},
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year = 2010
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