Greetings,
   Tweets and academic / scientific scholarship are not two topics that I 
think about together. IMHO the first is based on chit-chat, the second on 
a formal language of and culture of science.  Not exactly compatible. 
But here is an article that tries to do so.
   Just offered as something for reviewers, journal editors, scholarly 
writers, and others to think about.

   Would I welcome the twitter format and structure to comment on my latest 
writing project?  Sure. A few hundred characters on a particular point 
would be welcomed.
   Would I welcome the twitter content/style of writing (I just got up from 
my nap etc. or OOOHOO I like this!!!) on my latest writing project? Nope.

   Just something to think about.

   --gw

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:19:20 -0500
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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] A new paper in the ejournal Cybermetrics

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Tweeting Links to Academic Articles
Mike Thelwall, Andrew Tsou, Scott Weingart, Kim Holmberg, Stefanie Haustein

Cybermetrics, 17(2013), Issue 1, Paper 1
http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v17i1p1.pdf

Abstract

Academic articles are now frequently tweeted and so Twitter seems to be a 
useful tool for scholars to use to help keep up with publications and 
discussions in their fields. Perhaps as a result of this, tweet counts are 
increasingly used by digital libraries and journal websites as indicators of an 
article?s interest or impact. Nevertheless, it is not known whether tweets are 
typically positive, neutral or critical, or how articles are normally tweeted. 
These are problems for those wishing to tweet articles effectively and for 
those wishing to know whether tweet counts in digital libraries should be taken 
seriously. In response, a pilot study content analysis was conducted of 270 
tweets linking to articles in four journals, four digital libraries and two DOI 
URLs, collected over a period of eight months in 2012. The vast majority of the 
tweets echoed an article title (42%) or a brief summary (41%). One reason for 
summarising an article seemed to be to translate it for a general audience. Few 
tweets explicitly praised an article and none were critical. Most tweets did 
not directly refer to the article author, but some did and others were clearly 
self-citations. In summary, tweets containing links to scholarly articles 
generally provide little more than publicity, and so whilst tweet counts may 
provide evidence of the popularity of an article, the contents of the tweets 
themselves are unlikely to give deep insights into scientists' reactions to 
publications, except perhaps in special cases.

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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
Grupo Scimago
Madrid. SPAIN

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