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Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ?
Haustein, Stefanie Larivière, Vincent Thelwall, Mike Amyot, Didier Peters, Isabella
Haustein, Stefanie
Larivière, Vincent
Thelwall, Mike
Amyot, Didier
Peters, Isabella
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2014-09-30
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A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging platform used by a general audience to distribute information, Mendeley is a reference manager targeted at an academic user group to organize scholarly literature. Both platforms are used as sources for so-called altmetrics to measure a new kind of research impact. This analysis shows in how far they differ and compare to traditional citation impact metrics based on a large set of PubMed papers.
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Haustein, S., Larivière, V., Thelwall, M., Amyot, D. and Peters, I. (2014) Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ? it - Information Technology, 56(5), DOI: 10.1515/itit-2014-1048.
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2196-7032
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2196-7032