Background As the world continues to advance technologically, social media (SM) is
becoming an essential part of billions of people's lives worldwide and is affecting almost …

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

With the rapid growth of digital publishing, harvesting, managing, and analyzing scholarly
information have become increasingly challenging. The term Big Scholarly Data is coined …

Altmetrics is an emergent research area whereby social media is applied as a source of
metrics to assess scholarly impact. In the last few years, the interest in altmetrics has grown …

As research performance becomes increasingly important for academic institutions in
competition for rankings, student recruitment, and funding, many performance indicators …

Scholarly big data, which is a large-scale collection of academic information, technical data,
and collaboration relationships, has attracted increasing attentions, ranging from industries …

ResearchGate is increasingly used by scholars to upload the full-text of their articles and
make them freely available for everyone. This study aims to investigate the extent to which …

Social network sites enable people to easily connect to and communicate with others.
Following the success of generic platforms such as Facebook, a variety of online services …

Henk F. Moed Page 1 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly
Communication Henk F. Moed Applied Evaluative Informetrics Page 2 Qualitative and …