scholarly journals Erratum to: The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention

2015 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 1149-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianwen Wang ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Wenli Mao ◽  
Zhichao Fang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Article Usage

scholarly journals The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention

2015 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianwen Wang ◽  
Chen Liu ◽  
Wenli Mao ◽  
Zhichao Fang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Article Usage

scholarly journals The impact of open access on the medical literature: a review of current literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (11-12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Turk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Citation Count ◽  
Citation Impact ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Medical Articles ◽  
Citation Advantage

Background: the aim of the article is to conduct an overview of the impact of OA on the medical articles based on 3-part categorization.Methods: Data were identified by a search strategy with eight combinations of keywords (open access, citation impact, citation advantage, citation count, article download, article usage, social media attention, altmetrics) and searched in three different databases.Results: the analysis was conducted on 107 studies dealing with citations, downloads and social impact. Sixty-seven of them simply employed the counting citations to OA and non-OA articles; nineteen articles compared the downloads and citations counts; and twenty-one articles investigated the social impact of OA articles. Twenty-five articles investigated the citations, download counts, and social impact of medical articles.Conclusions: The studies investigating the citation impact mostly showed citation advantages. Those that employed citation and download counts of medical articles using randomized controlled trials showed that OA articles were downloaded significantly more frequently, but found no evidence of a citation advantage for open access articles. The citation advantage from open access might be caused by other factors. Results of the studies comparing the social media attention and citations/downloads of the medical articles are often diametrically opposed.

scholarly journals Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Torres-Salinas ◽  
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia ◽  
Pedro A. Castillo-Valdivieso
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
To Receive

AbstractWe present an analysis on the uptake of open access on COVID-19 related literature as well as the social media attention they gather when compared with non OA papers. We use a dataset of publications curated by Dimensions and analyze articles and preprints. Our sample includes 11,686 publications of which 67.5% are openly accessible. OA publications tend to receive the largest share of social media attention as measured by the Altmetric Attention Score. 37.6% of OA publications are bronze, which means toll journals are providing free access. MedRxiv contributes to 36.3% of documents in repositories but papers in BiorXiv exhibit on average higher AAS. We predict the growth of COVID-19 literature in the following 30 days estimating ARIMA models for the overall publications set, OA vs. non OA and by location of the document (repository vs. journal). We estimate that COVID-19 publications will double in the next 20 days, but non OA publications will grow at a higher rate than OA publications. We conclude by discussing the implications of such findings on the dissemination and communication of research findings to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak.

Altmetrics of COVID-19 research: An analysis of study dissemination by Twitter compared to citation rates (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Fabiano ◽  
Zachary Hallgrimson ◽  
Sakib Kazi ◽  
Jean-Paul Salameh ◽  
Stanley Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Open Access ◽  
South America ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Sign Test ◽  
Study Characteristics ◽  
Journal Impact ◽  
Epidemic Forecasting

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 1,000,000 cases across 181 countries worldwide. The global impact of COVID-19 has resulted in a surge of related research. Researchers have turned to social media platforms, namely Twitter, to disseminate their studies. The online database Altmetric is a tool which tracks the social media metrics of articles and is complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. Citation-based metrics may fail to portray dissemination accurately, due to the lengthy publication process. Altmetrics are not subject to this time-lag, suggesting that they may be an effective marker of research dissemination during the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE To assess the dissemination of COVID-19 research articles as measured by Twitter dissemination, compared to traditional citation-based metrics, and determine study characteristics associated with tweet rates. METHODS COVID-19 studies obtained from LitCovid published between January 1st to March 18th, 2020 were screened for inclusion. The following study characteristics were extracted independently, in single: Topic (General Info, Mechanism, Diagnosis, Transmission, Treatment, Prevention, Case Report, and Epidemic Forecasting), open access status (open access and subscription-based), continent of corresponding author (Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe), tweets, and citations. A sign test was used to compare the tweet rate and citation rate per day. A negative binomial regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the association between tweet rate and study characteristics of interest. RESULTS 1328 studies were included in the analysis. Tweet rates were found to be significantly higher than citation rates for COVID-19 studies, with a median tweet rate of 1.09 (SD 156.95) tweets per day and median citation rate of 0.00 (SD 3.02) citations per day, resulting in a median of differences of 1.09 (95% CI 0.86-1.33, P < .001). 2018 journal impact factors were positively correlated with tweet rate (P < .001). The topics Diagnosis (P = .01), Transmission (P < .001), Treatment (P = .01), and Epidemic Forecasting (P < 0.001) were positively correlated with tweet rate, relative to Case Report. The following continents of the corresponding author were negatively correlated with tweet rate, Africa (P <.001), Australia (P = .03), and South America (P < .001), relative to Asia. Open access journals were negatively correlated with tweet rate, relative to subscription-based journals (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS COVID-19 studies had significantly higher tweets rates compared to citation rates. This study further identified study characteristics that are correlated with the dissemination of studies on Twitter, such as 2018 journal impact factor, continent of the corresponding author, topic of study, and open access status. This highlights the importance of altmetrics in periods of rapidly expanding research, such as the COVID-19 pandemic to localize highly disseminated articles.

scholarly journals Social media: powering open access collaboration and global knowledge exchange

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhikshitha Gokulakrishnan ◽  
Sarah E. Butler ◽  
Dominic W. Proctor ◽  
Maarja‐Liis Ferry ◽  
Rajiv Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Global Knowledge

Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 369-380
Author(s):  
Barbara Crossette
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information System ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The United Nations

With a new Secretary-General, António Guterres, installed in 2017, the United Nations is in a position to hasten changes to its public information system and functions, which were slow to catch up with a fast-moving social media age. As the former head of UNHCR, he understands the importance of good relations with the media, which often have felt shut out by UN officials and member nations reluctant to expand the organization’s information outreach. Media attention had atrophied, at a time when the UN was coming under greater pressure and criticism for its handling of peacekeeping scandals and slow responses to crises, even when these were not the fault of the Secretariat.

scholarly journals TROLLING FOR ENGAGEMENT: AUSTRALIAN LEGACY NEWS OUTLETS SEEKING AUDIENCE INTERACTION METRICS ON FACEBOOK THROUGH DELIBERATELY DIVISIVE CONTENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Hurcombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Place Value ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
News Content ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Negative Feelings

This paper empirically investigates how two prominent Australian legacy news outlets – ABC News and News.com.au – operate according to what I term a social media logic of “engagement”, a concept which builds upon van Dijck & Poell’s notion of a social media logic of “popularity”. By a logic of engagement, I mean the necessity to maximize social media attention and interaction metrics. Rather than just valuing “popularity”, platforms instead place value on content that maximizes a multitude of feelings, sentiments, and reactions. Without sufficient engagement, outlets dependent on platforms such as Facebook are threatened by invisibility in the newsfeed. I specifically focus on the operations of ABC News and News.com.au on Facebook from 21 March 2018 – 10 April 2018. Within this period, I collected all the posts from each page, which amounted to 44 posts in total. From these posts, I strategically selected six posts of varying levels of engagement for closer qualitative analysis, with an emphasis on language and imagery. My findings in this paper suggest that the drive for monetizable and algorithmically-valued audience metrics on Facebook can encourage divisive and provocative news content that arouses strong negative feelings and promotes conflict. Trolls are those that deceive other users of their intentions, and seek to sow discord for their own purposes. Thus, it is beneficial to think about a potentially emerging practice of news “trolling”, as it appears that news outlets are adopting faux-naïve, and deliberately incendiary, practices when pursuing engagement.

scholarly journals Editorial

in education ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec Couros
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal

An introduction to our Autumn 2009 issue of in education, a peer-reviewed, open access journal. This is also Part I of a two-part series focusing on Social Media & Technology.

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