Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body
of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related …

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 …

Altmetrics, indices based on social media platforms and tools, have recently emerged as
alternative means of measuring scholarly impact. Such indices assume that scholars in fact …

Purpose–This paper aims to analyse various aspects of an academic social network: the
profile of users, the reasons for its use, its perceived benefits and the use of other social …

Academics can now use the web and the social websites to disseminate scholarly
information in a variety of different ways. Although some scholars have taken advantage of …

This study explores the connections between social and usage metrics (altmetrics) and
bibliometric indicators at the author level. It studies to what extent these indicators, gained …

Twitter has unarguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of
so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early …

This article compares the Faculty of 1000 (F1000) quality filtering results and Mendeley
usage data with traditional bibliometric indicators, using a sample of 1397 Genomics and …

Although M endeley bookmarking counts appear to correlate moderately with conventional
citation metrics, it is not known whether academic publications are bookmarked in M …

Structural changes to the scholarly environment are taking place as a result of the
introduction of Web 2.0 technologies, which have given rise to Open Science 2.0 initiatives …