263 citations · 452 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for
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Social Media Attention Increases Article Visits: An Investigation on Article-Level Referral Data of PeerJ
Xianwen Wang, Yunxue Cui, Qingchun Li +1
In order to better understand the effect of social media in the dissemination of scholarly articles, employing the daily updated referral data of 110 PeerJ articles collected over…
The poor altmetric performance of publications authored by researchers in mainland China
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Qingchun Li +1
China's scientific output has risen precipitously over the past decade; it is now the world's second-largest producer of scientific papers, behind only the United States. The quali…
Detecting and Tracking The Real-time Hot Topics: A Study on Computational Neuroscience
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang
In this study, following the idea of our previous paper (Wang, et al., 2013a), we improve the method to detect and track hot topics in a specific field by using the real-time artic…
Tracking the Digital Footprints to Scholarly Articles from Social Media
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo
Scholarly articles are discussed and shared on social media, which generates altmetrics. On the opposite side, what is the impact of social media on the dissemination of scholarly…
Tracing Digital Footprints to Academic Articles: An Investigation of PeerJ Publication Referral Data
Xianwen Wang, Shenmeng Xu, Zhichao Fang
In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people's visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers publish…
The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Wenli Mao +1
In this study, we compare the difference in the impact between open access (OA) and non-open access (non-OA) articles. 1761 Nature Communications articles published from 1 Jan. 201…
Continuous, Dynamic and Comprehensive Article-Level Evaluation of Scientific Literature
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Yang Yang
It is time to make changes to the current research evaluation system, which is built on the journal selection. In this study, we propose the idea of continuous, dynamic and compreh…
Tracing The Largest Seasonal Migration on Earth
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Wenli Mao +2
It is estimated that over 3.6 billion passengers are travelling during the Chinese Spring Festival travel season. They leave their working cities and return their hometowns to enjo…
Does A Paper Being Featured on The Cover of A Journal Guarantee More Attention and Greater Impact?
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Wenli Mao
Paper featured on the cover of a journal has more visibility in an issue compared with other ordinary articles for both printed and electronic journal. Does this kind of visibility…
From Attention to Citation, What and How Does Altmetrics Work?
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Zhichao Fang +1
Scholarly and social impacts of scientific publications could be measured by various metrics. In this study, the relationship between various metrics of 63,805 PLOS research articl…
Exploring Scientists' Working Timetable: A Global Survey
Xianwen Wang, Lian Peng, Chunbo Zhang +4
In our previous study (Wang et al., 2012), we analyzed scientists' working timetable of 3 countries, using realtime downloading data of scientific literatures. In this paper, we ma…
Games and Culture: Using Online-gaming Data to Cluster Chinese Regional Cultures
Xianwen Wang, Wenli Mao, Chen Liu
To identify cluster of societies and cultures is not easy in subject to the availability of data. In this study, we propose a novel method to cluster Chinese regional cultures. Usi…
Clustering Chinese Regional Cultures with Online-gaming Data
Xianwen Wang, Wenli Mao
To identify cluster of societies is not easy in subject to the availability of data. In this study, from the prospective of computational social science, we propose a novel method…
How far does scientific community look back?
Xianwen Wang, Zhi Wang, Wenli Mao +1
How does the published scientific literature used by scientific community? Many previous studies make analysis on the static usage data. In this research, we propose the concept of…
Usage History of Scientific Literature: Nature Metrics and Metrics of Nature Publications
Xianwen Wang, Wenli Mao, Shenmeng Xu +1
In this study, we analyze the dynamic usage history of Nature publications over time using Nature metrics data. We conduct analysis from two perspectives. On the one hand, we exami…