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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 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:19:20 -0500 From: Isidro F. Aguillo <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SIGMETRICS] A new paper in the ejournal Cybermetrics Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html 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. -- ****************************** Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr. The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC Grupo Scimago Madrid. SPAIN [log in to unmask] ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter: @isidroaguillo Rankings Web: webometrics.info ****************************** --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com