Since the emergence of the personal website, and later scholarly blogging, academics have
used the Internet for both strictly scientific and self-promotional purposes. Microblogging via …

'Social media metrics' are bursting into science studies as emerging new measures of
impact related to scholarly activities. However, their meaning and scope as scholarly metrics …

This study explores science communication on Twitter by investigating a sample of tweets
referring to academic papers in five different scientific fields. The specifications of science …

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an upsurge in the spread of diverse conspiracy
theories (CTs) with real-life impact. However, the dynamics of user engagement remain …

To date, the available literature mainly discusses Twitter activity patterns in the context of
individual case studies, while comparative research on a large number of communicative …

Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring
the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics …