Conference Paper: “What Makes Papers Visible on Social Media? An Analysis of Various Document Characteristics”

The following conference paper was recently shared on arXiv.
Title
What Makes Papers Visible on Social Media? An Analysis of Various Document Characteristics
Authors
Zohreh Zahedi
Leiden University
Rodrigo Costas
Leiden University
Vincent Larivière
Université de Montréal
Stefanie Haustein
Université de Montréa
Source

In this study we have investigated the relationship between different document characteristics and the number of Mendeley readership counts, tweets, Facebook posts, mentions in blogs and mainstream media for 1.3 million papers published in journals covered by the Web of Science (WoS). It aims to demonstrate that how factors affecting various social media-based indicators differ from those influencing citations and which document types are more popular across different platforms.
Our results highlight the heterogeneous nature of altmetrics, which encompasses different types of uses and user groups engaging with research on social media.

Source
via arXiv
Presented at the 21th International Conference in Science & Technology Indicators (STI)
September 13-16, 2016
Valencia, Spain
Abstract

In this study we have investigated the relationship between different document characteristics and the number of Mendeley readership counts, tweets, Facebook posts, mentions in blogs and mainstream media for 1.3 million papers published in journals covered by the Web of Science (WoS). It aims to demonstrate that how factors affecting various social media-based indicators differ from those influencing citations and which document types are more popular across different platforms. Our results highlight the heterogeneous nature of altmetrics, which encompasses different types of uses and user groups engaging with research on social media.

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