Why are some studies more popular in social media?

Min, Chao; Wang, Yihong; Bu, Yi; Kang, Lele; Sun, Jianjun; Li, Jiang

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Title

Why are some studies more popular in social media?

Author(s)

• Min, Chao
• Wang, Yihong
• Bu, Yi
• Kang, Lele
• Sun, Jianjun
• Li, Jiang

Issue Date

2019-03-15

Keyword(s)

• Altmetric score
• Citation impact
• Social media
• Scholarly communication

Abstract

Most previous studies of Altmetrics focused on the correlation between alt-metric scores and citation scores of publications. In this study, we proposed Altmetrics as a measure of the popularity of scientific research. Based on 15,321 articles in Physics published in 2008-2013 and the regression analysis on the dataset, we concluded that journal impact factor, average citation impact of the authors, and the number of citations are positively associated with a paper's popularity in social media, whereas publication year and authors' average academic age had negative correlation with its altmetric score.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2019 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103340

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103340

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Copyright 2019 Chao Min, Yihong Wang, Yi Bu, Lele Kang, Jianjun Sun, and Jiang Li

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