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  • Tweeting biomedicine : an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Peters, Isabella; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Thelwall, Mike; Larivière, Vincent (Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-26)
    Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation analysis. Data generated from social media activities ...
  • 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 ...
  • Tweets vs. Mendeley readers : how do these two social media metrics differ? 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent; Thelwall, Mike; Amyot, Didier; Peters, Isabella (Oldenbourg Verlag, 2014)
    A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging platform used by a general audience to distribute information, Mendeley ...
  • The use of bibliometrics for assessing research : possibilities, limitations and adverse effects 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent (2015)
    Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in the light of limited resources ...