China Scholars and Twitter

How and why scholars cite on Twitter

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 fas...

Scholars on Twitter: who and how many are they?

In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying scholars with a Twitter account. By combining bibliometric data from Web of Science and Twitter users identified by Altmetric.com we have obtained the largest set of individual scholars matched with Twitter users made so far. Our methodology consists of a combination of matching algorithms, considering different linguistic elements of...

Networks of digital humanities scholars: The informational and social uses and gratifications of Twitter

Big data research is currently split on whether and to what extent Twitter can be characterised as an informational or social network. We contribute to this line of inquiry through an investigation of digital humanities scholars’ uses and gratifications of Twitter. We conducted a thematic analysis of 25 semistructured interview transcripts to learn about these scholars’ professional use of Twit...

Scholars in an increasingly open and digital world: How do education professors and students use Twitter?

Article history: Received 1 August 2015 Received in revised form 10 February 2016 Accepted 13 February 2016 Available online 15 February 2016 There has been a lack of large-scale research examining education scholars' (professors' and doctoral students') socialmedia participation.We address thisweakness in the literature by using dataminingmethods to capture a large data set of scholars' partic...

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