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  • Astrophysicists on Twitter : an in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Holmberg, Kim; Peters, Isabella; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2014-05-19)
    Purpose – This paper analyzes the tweeting behavior of 37 astrophysicists on Twitter and compares their tweeting behavior with their publication behavior and citation impact to show whether they tweet research-related topics or not. Design/methodo ...
  • Astrophysicists’ conversational connections on Twitter 

    Holmberg, Kim; Bowman, Timothy D.; Haustein, Stefanie; Peters, Isabella (Public Library of Science, 2014-08-25)
    Because Twitter and other social media are increasingly used for analyses based on altmetrics, this research sought to understand what contexts, affordance use, and social activities influence the tweeting behavior of astrophysicists. Thus, the presented ...
  • Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Holmberg, Kim; Tsou, Andrew; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (2015-05-05)
    This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of such bots from the perspective ...