The Influence of Social Usage Data on Science

The development of science is inevitably affected by social dynamics since more and more scholarly activities are happening online. With the development of Internet and Web 2.0, the evaluation, spread, and discussion of scholarly information and publications are exposed to the whole society, breaking the strict borderline between scientists and amateurs. This paper proposes to model scientific development by leveraging a large amount of diverse social media data, including Twitter, Wikipedia, and web usage data, from three aspects. First, to investigate how social impact is related to scholarly reputation; Second, to analyze how scientific messages propagate on social web; Third, to study the relationship and dynamics of scientific disciplines using web usage data.