The relationship between tweets, citations, and article views for PLOS ONE articles

The relationship between tweets, citations, and article views for PLOS ONE articles

An analysis of article-level metrics of 27,856 PLOS ONE articles reveals that the number of tweets was weakly associated with the number of citations ( β  = 0.10), and weakly negatively associated with citations when the number of article views was held constant ( β  = −0.06). The number of tweets w...

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Published in:Scientometrics Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 1773 - 1779
Main Author: de Winter, J. C. F.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01-02-2015
Subjects:
Citation analysis
Computer Science
Information Storage and Retrieval
Library Science
Open access
Scientometrics
Social networks
PLOS ONE
Twitter
Social media
Altmetrics
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Summary:An analysis of article-level metrics of 27,856 PLOS ONE articles reveals that the number of tweets was weakly associated with the number of citations ( β  = 0.10), and weakly negatively associated with citations when the number of article views was held constant ( β  = −0.06). The number of tweets was predictive of other social media activity ( β  = 0.34 for Mendeley and β  = 0.41 for Facebook), but not of the number of article views on PubMed Central ( β  = 0.01). It is concluded that the scientific citation process acts relatively independently of the social dynamics on Twitter.
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ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-014-1445-x