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...

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Main Authors: Xianwen Wang, Yunxue Cui, Qingchun Li, Xinhui Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2017.00011/full