A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter.

Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media-often referred to as altmetrics-are increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts, however, may produce highly misleading results, as the entities that participate in conversations about science on these plat...

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Main Authors: Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R Sugimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5388341?pdf=render