Altmetrics : factor analysis for assessing the popularity of research articles on Twitter

• Main Authors: Pandian, Nandhini Devi Soundara, Veeramachaneni, Bhargavi, Na, Jin-Cheon, Boothaladinni, Rashmi Vishwanath
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Mass media; Altmetrics; Twitter Metric
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147405
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Altmetrics measure the frequency of references about an article on social media platforms, like Twitter. This paper studies a variety of factors that affect the popularity of articles (i.e., the number of article mentions) in the field of psychology on Twitter. Firstly, in this study, we classify Tw...