Social Media Attention Increases Article Visits: An Investigation on Article-Level Referral Data of PeerJ

Wang, Xianwen; Cui, Yunxue; Li, Qingchun; Guo, Xinhui

doi:10.3389/frma.2017.00011

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“…Not only researchers, but also many general people are directed to scholarly articles by social media attention. Articles with more social media attention would have more article visitors (Wang 2017). These results are similar to those reported by Batooli et.al.…”

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Measuring social media attention of scientific research on Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): An investigation on article-level metrics data of Dimensions

Batooli

Sayyah

2020

Preprint

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The purpose of this research was to evaluate the rate of attention to the scientific productions on COVID-19 in social media over a period of four months. The present research was an applied descriptive-analytical study that used Scientometrics analysis. The population study included research papers about the COVID-19 indexed in Dimensions platform from December 2019 to March 2020. Information of 20% of the articles with the highest citation count and 20% of the articles with the highest number of Altmetric Attention Score (AAS), including title, journal, citation and Altmetrics indicators for each article were extracted. These data were analyzed by SPSS 16.0. The results showed that 1910 scientific productions about the COVID-19 were indexed in the Dimensions platform. A considerable number of these articles were accessible via preprint services and were published in journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ and NEJM. Authors from China and Japan were the most active authors. All of the 382 articles had AAS, that is, all of these articles received attention at least in one of the social media. The highest and lowest AAS for these articles were 14030 and 6, respectively. These results show a high rate of attention by researches and users of social media to the articles presented on COVID-19. The result of this research also showed a significant positive relationship between the citations and Altmetric indicators. As the results of this research showed, the “information supply” in the field of COVID-19 was remarkably high. Also, the “information demand” by the social media audiences was high.

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confidence: 90%

Measuring social media attention of scientific research on Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): An investigation on article-level metrics data of Dimensions

Batooli

Sayyah

2020

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“…Though scholarly Twitter mentions have been proven to be able to increase the online visibility and dissemination of scientific publications (Allen, Stanton, Di Pietro, & Moseley, 2013; Shu, Lou, & Haustein, 2018; Wang, Cui, Li, & Guo, 2017), as of yet, very little work has been done to uncover the mechanism of how scholarly Twitter mentions serve as bridges to direct users to view the tweeted scholarly content. That is to say, even though nowadays scholarly Twitter mentions are widespread and, therefore, are believed to represent a kind of social media attention that scientific publications received, it is still unclear whether they really result in any specific impact by attracting users to access the mentioned scientific publications.…”

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confidence: 99%

How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications

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Costas

Tian

et al. 2021

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To provide some context for the potential engagement behavior of Twitter users around science, this article investigates how Bitly short links to scientific publications embedded in scholarly Twitter mentions are clicked on Twitter. Based on the click metrics of over 1.1 million Bitly short links referring to Web of Science (WoS) publications, our results show that around 49.5% of them were not clicked by Twitter users. For those Bitly short links with clicks from Twitter, the majority of their Twitter clicks accumulated within a short period of time after they were first tweeted. Bitly short links to the publications in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities tend to attract more clicks from Twitter over other subject fields. This article also assesses the extent to which Twitter clicks are correlated with some other impact indicators. Twitter clicks are weakly correlated with scholarly impact indicators (WoS citations and Mendeley readers), but moderately correlated to other Twitter engagement indicators (total retweets and total likes). In light of these results, we highlight the importance of paying more attention to the click metrics of URLs in scholarly Twitter mentions, to improve our understanding about the more effective dissemination and reception of science information on Twitter.

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“…Health researchers are also using social media channels to promote their research, a practice that has been associated with increased article views and downloads [35]. Whether promoting articles over social media translates to an increase in citations remains unclear [14,36,37], as does the relationship between social media promotion and traditional academic metrics [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

Health Researchers’ Use of Social Media: Scoping Review

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BackgroundHealth researchers are increasingly using social media in a professional capacity, and the applications of social media for health researchers are vast. However, there is currently no published evidence synthesis of the ways in which health researchers use social media professionally, and uncertainty remains as to how best to harness its potential.ObjectiveThis scoping review aimed to explore how social media is used by health researchers professionally, as reported in the literature.MethodsThe scoping review methodology guided by Arksey and O’Malley and Levac et al was used. Comprehensive searches based on the concepts of health research and social media were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, and Web of Science databases, with no limitations applied. Articles were screened at the title and abstract level and at full text by two reviewers. One reviewer extracted data that were analyzed descriptively to map the available evidence.ResultsA total of 8359 articles were screened at the title and abstract level, of which 719 were also assessed at full text for eligibility. The 414 articles identified for inclusion were published in 278 different journals. Studies originated from 31 different countries, with the most prevalent being the United States (52.7% [218/414]). The health discipline of the first authors varied, with medicine (33.3% [138/414]) being the most common. A third of the articles covered health generally, with 61 health-specific topics. Papers used a range of social media platforms (mean 1.33 [SD 0.7]). A quarter of the articles screened reported on social media use for participant recruitment (25.1% [104/414]), followed by practical ways to use social media (15.5% [64/414]), and use of social media for content analysis research (13.3% [55/414]). Articles were categorized as celebratory (ie, opportunities for engagement, 72.2% [299/414]), contingent (ie, opportunities and possible limitations, 22.7% [94/414]) and concerned (ie, potentially harmful, 5.1% [21/414]).ConclusionsHealth researchers are increasingly publishing on their use of social media for a range of professional purposes. Although most of the sentiment around the use of social media in health research was celebratory, the uses of social media varied widely. Future research is needed to support health researchers to optimize their social media use.

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Social Media Attention Increases Article Visits: An Investigation on Article-Level Referral Data of PeerJ

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

Measuring social media attention of scientific research on Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): An investigation on article-level metrics data of Dimensions

Measuring social media attention of scientific research on Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): An investigation on article-level metrics data of Dimensions

How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications

Health Researchers’ Use of Social Media: Scoping Review

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