Inproceedings,
How and Why Scholars Cite on Twitter
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, volume 47 of ASIS&T '10, page 75:1--75:4. Silver Springs, MD, USA, American Society for Information Science, (2010)
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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- altmetric
- analysis
- citation
- cite
- dblp
- neu;
- phd
- phdproposal
- research
- scholar
- scienceontwitter
- scientometric
- scientometrics
- social_media/web2.0;
- twitterscholar
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- @jaeschke 10 years ago- increasing popularity of Twitter with scholars (Young, 2009) - mixed-methods approach, semi-structured interviews, analysis links within tweets - analyze the meaning/reason behind tweeting a scientific article - 5% of links are citations, thereof 52% first-order, 48% second-order - citations are conversational and not necessarily act as evidence for some argument - scholars consider that Twitter citations "represent and transmit scholarly impact" - shows the importance of Twitter for scholars: as a personal, human, and fast filter for the overwhelming amount of scientific literature