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Social Media Attention Increases Article Visits: An Investigation on Article-Level Referral Data of PeerJ
In order to better understand the effect of social media in the dissemination
of scholarly articles, employing the daily updated referral data of 110 PeerJ
articles collected over a period of 345 days, we analyze the relationship
between social media attention and article visitors directed by social media.
Our results show that social media presence of PeerJ articles is high. About
68.18% of the papers receive at least one tweet from Twitter accounts other
than @PeerJ, the official account of the journal. Social media attention
increases the dissemination of scholarly articles. Altmetrics could not only
act as the complement of traditional citation measures but also play an
important role in increasing the article downloads and promoting the impacts of
scholarly articles. There also exists a significant correlation among the
online attention from different social media platforms. Articles with more
Facebook shares tend to get more tweets. The temporal trends show that social
attention comes immediately following publication but does not last long, so do
the social media directed article views
Career development tips for today's nursing academic: bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: A discussion of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media for the contemporary nursing scholar and academic researcher. Background: Today's nursing academic faces myriad challenges in balancing their daily life and, in recent years, academic survival has been increasingly challenged by the various research assessment exercises that evaluate the performance of knowledge institutions. As such, it is essential that today's nursing academic keep up to date with the core competencies needed for survival in a modern research career, particularly the intersecting triad of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media. Design: Discussion paper. Data sources: Published literature and relevant websites. Implications for nursing: The rise of social media and altmetrics has important implications for contemporary nursing scholars who publish their research. Some fundamental questions when choosing a journal might be ‘does it have a Twitter and/or Facebook site, or a blog (or all three)’; and ‘does it have any other presence on social media, such as LinkedIn, Wikipedia, YouTube, ResearchGate and so on?’ Another consequence of embracing social media is that individual academics should also develop their own strategies for promoting and disseminating their work as widely as possible. Conclusion: The rising importance of social media and altmetrics can no longer be ignored, and today's nursing academic now has another facet to consider in their scholarly activities. Despite the changing nature of research dissemination, however, it is still important to recognize the undoubted value of established knowledge dissemination routes (that being the peer-reviewed publication)
Correlation of social networks with traditional metrics of impact on scientific journals in nursing
Q3Different bibliometric indexes allow researchers to evaluate the impact of scientific journals based on the number of citations received by their publications. However, the correlation of these indexes with alternative metrics that evaluate the presence of journals on social networks has not been evaluated in nursing journals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the SCImago Journal Ranking Indicator (SJR) and alternative metrics of presence in four social networks (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) on indexed nursing journals. A correlation study was conducted in March 2019 through which the nursing journals included in the SJR were identified. Out of a total of 131 journals, 67 were excluded because they were active on social networks that were not their own. 64 were included for analysis. The most frequently used social networks were Twitter (75%) and Facebook (75%). The journals with presence on social networks had higher values for H Index (36.5 vs 12.0, p = 0.00037) and SJR (0.452 vs 0.268, p = 0.0069), and a higher number of publications (≥ 500 publications in 3 years, p = 0.03 ) than those without social networks. The correlation between the SJR and the number of followers on Twitter (r: - 0.067) and the number of followers on Facebook (- 0.18) were poor and in some cases negative. We concluded that the use of social networks as a means of dissemination and interaction by nursing journals is high, being used as a strategy of visibility and dissemination of journal contents.Revista Internacional - Indexad
#OrthoTwitter: Relationship between author Twitter utilization and academic impact in orthopaedic surgery
Background #OrthoTwitter has evolved to disseminate findings and engage the public. However, the academic impact of Twitter utilization in orthopaedic surgery is unknown. Questions/purposes The purpose of the study was to evaluate relationships between the author and manuscript Twitter activity and citations. Methods Manuscripts in 17 orthopaedic journals from 2018 were identified. Citations, online mentions, impact factors, and subspecialties were obtained. H-index and Twitter account details for authors were obtained for a subset of manuscripts. Relationships between Twitter activity and citations were evaluated. Results 2,473/4,224 (58.5%) manuscripts were mentioned on Twitter (n=29,958 mentions), with Twitter manuscripts cited more frequently (median 10 vs. 7, p\u3c0.0001). Twitter mentions, impact factors, non-open-access status, and subspecialties were associated with citation counts. Articles mentioned in 10, 100, and 1,000 Tweets were observed to have a 1.1-fold, 1.7-fold, and 245-fold increase in citations. In author-level analyses, 156 (20.0%) first and 216 (27.7%) senior authors had Twitter accounts. Citation count was associated with increasing senior author H-index
Social media in scholarly communication : a review of the literature and empirical analysis of Twitter use by SSHRC doctoral award recipients
This report has been commissioned by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze
the role that social media currently plays in scholarly communication as well as to what extent metrics derived
from social media activity related to scholarly content can be applied in an evaluation context.
Scholarly communication has become more diverse and open with research being discussed, shared and
evaluated online. Social media tools are increasingly being used in the research and scholarly communication
context, as scholars connect on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter or specialized platforms such as ResearchGate,
Academia.edu or Mendeley. Research is discussed on blogs or Twitter, while datasets, software code and
presentations are shared on Dryad, Github, FigShare and similar websites for reproducibility and reuse. Literature
is managed, annotated and shared with online tools such as Mendeley and Zotero, and peer review is starting to
be more open and transparent. The changing landscape of scholarly communication has also brought about new
possibilities regarding its evaluation. So-called altmetrics are based on scholarly social media activity and have
been introduced to reflect scholarly output and impact beyond considering only peer-reviewed journal articles
and citations within them to measure scientific success. This includes the measurement of more diverse types of
scholarly work and various forms of impact including that on society.
This report provides an overview of how various social media tools are used in the research context based on
1) an extensive review of the current literature as well as 2) an empirical analysis of the use of Twitter by the 2010
cohort of SSHRC Doctoral Award recipients was analyzed in depth. Twitter has been chosen as one of the most
promising tools regarding interaction with the general public and scholarly communication beyond the scientific
community. The report focuses on the opportunities and challenges of social media and derived metrics and
attempts to provide SSHRC with information to develop guidelines regarding the use of social media by funded
researchers as well support the informed used of social media metrics
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental
ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators on
the basis of interactions with these platforms. Research and scholarship in this area has accelerated since
the coining and subsequent advocacy for altmetrics—that is, research indicators based on social media
activity. This review provides an extensive account of the state-of-the art in both scholarly use of social
media and altmetrics. The review consists of two main parts: the first examines the use of social media in
academia, examining the various functions these platforms have in the scholarly communication process
and the factors that affect this use. The second part reviews empirical studies of altmetrics, discussing the
various interpretations of altmetrics, data collection and methodological limitations, and differences
according to platform. The review ends with a critical discussion of the implications of this transformation
in the scholarly communication system
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