How and why scholars cite on Twitter

Authors:
Jason Priem;Kaitlin Light Costello
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Venue:
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast-moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a "scientometrics 2.0."