On Communication among Scholars

Understanding Co-Authorship among Consumer Behavior Scholars

Method/Design and Sample: Our data covers all issues of the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Research to December 2014, totaling 2,698 articles with 5,951 author credits. We describe the data and community characteristics. We advance the literature by using modern social network analysis techniques to map a social network and provide social network metrics across two j...

Why Do IS Scholars Cite Other Scholars? An Empirical Analysis of the Direct and Moderating Effects of Cooperation and Competition among IS Scholars on Individual Citation Behavior

Employing a theoretical framework based on social capital theory, we conceptualize previous citations by author A of author B as weak cooperation that indicates cognitive capital between these authors, and previous coauthorships between them as strong cooperation that captures relational capital between them. We propose that these two types of cooperation impact the citation behavior of author ...

Scholars on soap boxes: Science communication and dissemination in TED videos

Online videos provide a novel, and often interactive, platform for the popularization of science. One successful collection is hosted on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) web site. This study uses a range of bibliometric (citation) and webometric (usage and bookmarking) indicators to examine TED videos in order to provide insights into the type and scope of their impact. The results s...

McNair Scholars

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...