242 citations · 845 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for
18 papers
An analysis of the suitability of OpenAlex for bibliometric analyses
Juan Pablo Alperin, Jason Portenoy, Kyle Demes +2
Scopus and the Web of Science have been the foundation for research in the science of science even though these traditional databases systematically underrepresent certain discipli…
How much research shared on Facebook happens outside of public pages and groups? A comparison of public and private online activity around PLOS ONE papers
Asura Enkhbayar, Stefanie Haustein, Germana Barata +1
Despite its undisputed position as the biggest social media platform, Facebook has never entered the main stage of altmetrics research. In this study, we argue that the lack of att…
Scholarly Twitter metrics
Stefanie Haustein
Twitter has arguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early indica…
On the relationships between bibliographic characteristics of scientific documents and citation and Mendeley readership counts: A large-scale analysis of Web of Science publications
Zohreh Zahedi, Stefanie Haustein
In this paper we present a first large-scale analysis of the relationship between Mendeley readership and citation counts with particular documents bibliographic characteristics. A…
What makes papers visible on social media? An analysis of various document characteristics
Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Vincent Larivière +1
In this study we have investigated the relationship between different document characteristics and the number of Mendeley readership counts, tweets, Facebook posts, mentions in blo…
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: a review of the literature
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Sam Work, Vincent Larivière +1
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the pr…
Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
Stefanie Haustein
As uptake among researchers is constantly increasing, social media are finding their way into scholarly communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, were introduced to re…
Adapting sentiment analysis for tweets linking to scientific papers
Natalie Friedrich, Timothy D. Bowman, Wolfgang G. Stock +1
In the context of altmetrics, tweets have been discussed as potential indicators of immediate and broader societal impact of scientific documents. However, it is not yet clear to w…
Influence of study type on Twitter activity for medical research papers
Jens Peter Andersen, Stefanie Haustein
Twitter has been identified as one of the most popular and promising altmetrics data sources, as it possibly reflects a broader use of research articles by the general public. Seve…
When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas
With the acceleration of scholarly communication in the digital era, the publication year is no longer a sufficient level of time aggregation for bibliometric and social media indi…
Social media in scholarly communication
Stefanie Haustein, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière
Social media metrics - commonly coined as "altmetrics" - have been heralded as great democratizers of science, providing broader and timelier indicators of impact than citations. T…
Interpreting "altmetrics": viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas
More than 30 years after Cronin's seminal paper on "the need for a theory of citing" (Cronin, 1981), the metrics community is once again in need of a new theory, this time one for…
Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated bot accounts on Twitter
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Kim Holmberg +3
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific papers deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusse…
Astrophysicists on Twitter: An in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Kim Holmberg +2
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…
Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ?
Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Mike Thelwall +2
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 plat…
Tweeting biomedicine: an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature
Stefanie Haustein, Isabella Peters, Cassidy R. Sugimoto +2
Data collected by social media platforms have recently been introduced as a new source for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementar…
Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community
Stefanie Haustein, Isabella Peters, Judit Bar-Ilan +3
Altmetrics, indices based on social media platforms and tools, have recently emerged as alternative means of measuring scholarly impact. Such indices assume that scholars in fact p…
Beyond citations: Scholars' visibility on the social Web
Judit Bar-Ilan, Stefanie Haustein, Isabella Peters +3
Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visibl…