Who are Tweeting Research Articles and Why?

• Main Authors: Htoo, Tint Hla Hla, Na, Jin-Cheon
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Twitter; Altmetrics; User Profiling; Motivation; Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86187; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43940
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The purpose of this paper is to understand the profiles of users and their motivations in sharing research articles on Twitter. The goal is to contribute to the understanding of Twitter as a new altmetric measure for assessing impact of research articles. In this paper, we extended the previous stud...