Open AccessScientific bloggers under the altmetric microscope
Author(s) -
Peters Isabella,
Beutelspacher Lisa,
Maghferat Parinaz,
Terliesner Jens
Publication year - 2012
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.14504901305
Subject(s) - bookmarking , social media optimization , social media , world wide web , visibility , computer science , microblogging , social network (sociolinguistics) , multimedia , geography , meteorology
In this paper we present a preliminary altmetric study of scientific bloggers and how they use different social media (i.e. blogs, social bookmarking systems, and Twitter) for scholarly communication, information dissemination, and creation of visibility. We analyzed linking behavior in blog posts and tweets, number of comments assigned to blog posts and share of publications found in social bookmarking systems. Results show that heavy tweeting and blogging do not result in large numbers of followers and comments, tweets and blog posts contain lots of URLs and self‐citations, and share of publications found in social bookmarking systems varies between different platforms.