Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications by Author "Thelwall, Mike"

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  • arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record : an analysis of roles and relationships 

    Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Macaluso, Benoit; Milojević, Staša; Cronin, Blaise; Thelwall, Mike (Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
    Since its creation in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields. Combining data from the entirety of arXiv and the Web of Science (WoS), this article investigates (a) the proportion of papers across all disciplines ...

  • A community of curious souls : an analysis of commenting behavior on TED talks videos 

    Tsou, Andrew; Thelwall, Mike; Mongeon, Philippe; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Public library of science, 2014-04-09)
    The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks website hosts video recordings of various experts, celebrities, academics, and others who discuss their topics of expertise. Funded by advertising and members but provided free online, TED Talks have ...

  • Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services 

    Thelwall, Mike; Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Public library of science, 2013-05-28)
    Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either ...

  • The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion : a case of science and technology studies 

    Milojević, Staša; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent; Thelwall, Mike; Ding, Ying (Elsevier, 2014-07-09)
    Genre is considered to be an important element in scholarly communication and in the practice of scientific disciplines. However, scientometric studies have typically focused on a single genre, the journal article. The goal of this study is to ...

  • 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 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 ...