Why highly cited articles are not highly tweeted? A biology case

Altmetrics is an emerging topic that has generated much interest. Most of the studies, however, have focused on the comparison of altemetric indicators with traditional citation metrics and few have explored the factors influencing altmetric performance. This study investigates the dissemination pat...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Liwei, Wang, Jue
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1408702020-06-02T09:13:34Z Why highly cited articles are not highly tweeted? A biology case Zhang, Liwei Wang, Jue School of Social Sciences Social sciences::General Publication Citation Altmetrics is an emerging topic that has generated much interest. Most of the studies, however, have focused on the comparison of altemetric indicators with traditional citation metrics and few have explored the factors influencing altmetric performance. This study investigates the dissemination pattern of scientific articles on social medial, and is particularly focused on highly tweeted articles and highly cited articles. Based on bibliometric and altmetric data collected for over 40,000 articles in the field of biology, we found that the timing of tweets and the type of Twitter accounts affect the amount of attention that a scientific publication receives on social media. Articles with a large number of tweets tend to be the ones receiving immediate social media exposure and are often tweeted by journal associated organization accounts or other individual accounts with a large number of followers. By contrast, highly cited articles in general are neither tweeted timely nor promoted by their respective journal accounts. Accepted version 2020-06-02T09:13:34Z 2020-06-02T09:13:34Z 2018 Journal Article Zhang, L., & Wang, J. (2018). Why highly cited articles are not highly tweeted? A biology case. Scientometrics, 117(1), 495–509. doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2876-6 0138-9130 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140870 10.1007/s11192-018-2876-6 2-s2.0-85050821630 1 117 495 509 en Scientometrics © 2018 Akadémiai Kiadó. All rights reserved. This paper was published by Springer Nature in Scientometrics and is made available with permission of Akadémiai Kiadó. application/pdf
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Why highly cited articles are not highly tweeted? A biology case
description Altmetrics is an emerging topic that has generated much interest. Most of the studies, however, have focused on the comparison of altemetric indicators with traditional citation metrics and few have explored the factors influencing altmetric performance. This study investigates the dissemination pattern of scientific articles on social medial, and is particularly focused on highly tweeted articles and highly cited articles. Based on bibliometric and altmetric data collected for over 40,000 articles in the field of biology, we found that the timing of tweets and the type of Twitter accounts affect the amount of attention that a scientific publication receives on social media. Articles with a large number of tweets tend to be the ones receiving immediate social media exposure and are often tweeted by journal associated organization accounts or other individual accounts with a large number of followers. By contrast, highly cited articles in general are neither tweeted timely nor promoted by their respective journal accounts.
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