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How and why scholars cite on Twitter

Author(s) -

Priem Jason,

Costello Kaitlin Light

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

proceedings of the american society for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1550-8390

pISSN - 0044-7870

DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504701201

Subject(s) - microblogging , citation , conversation , social media , scholarly communication , sample (material) , altmetrics , scientometrics , service (business) , sociology , world wide web , media studies , computer science , political science , communication , business , publishing , marketing , law , chemistry , chromatography

Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast‐moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a “scientometrics 2.0.”

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