Are there biases in decisions to tweet on scientific papers? A plea for conducting an experimental Twitter study. Technical note

Twitter data are used as alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure the impact or attention of research. Tweets are used to communicate about papers. However, Twitter data can only be used for research evaluation purposes, if biases do not influence tweet decisions on papers. The existence of biase...

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Main Authors: Bornmann, L. (Author), Haunschild, R. (Author), Tekles, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: El Profesional de la Informacion 2022
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