twitter for scientific communication
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Poster by Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann. Presented at Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. June 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Twitter for Scientific Communication How can Citations/References be Identified and Measured?
Poster presented at Web Science Conference 2011 (#websci11), Koblenz, Germany, June 14-17, 2011. More on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Evelyn Dröge, Wolfgang G. Stock, Julia Verbina, Parinaz Maghferat.
The research group “Science and the Internet” is funded by the “Forschungsförderungsfonds”, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann Dr. Katrin Weller
Dept. of Information Science, HHU Düsseldorf
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @kwelle
Researchers Group „Science and the Internet“
(Nachwuchsforschergruppe „Wissenschaft und Internet“, NFGWIN)
Web: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de
Twitter: #nfgwin
Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Dept. for English Language and Linguistics, HHU Düsseldorf
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @coffee001
3 Datasets
Conference tweets:
#www2010
Conference tweets: #mla09
scientwists: Tweets by selected
scientific users
• 903 unique users • 3,358 tweets • 13.04.-14.05.2010
• 369 unique users • 1,929 tweets • 15.12.’09-14.01.’10
• 589 selected users • 410,609 tweets • 07.01.-31.08.2010
2 Types of Citations/References
Internal Citations External Citations
• User-related citations • Retweets (RTs) within Twitter • Reference to other users /
quotation of tweets • Users cite and are cited
• Resource-related citations • Links (URLs) to external resources • References to various types of
Web content • Users cite, websites are cited
How do Scientists Cite on Twitter?
http://
227,550
55%
scientwists
1,338 40%
#www2010
External citations: Percentage of tweets that include at least one URL
525; 27%
#mla09
1,121 33%
#www2010
Internal citations: Percentage of retweets
413 21%
#mla09
92,22522%
scientwists
URLs 1,338
RTs 1,121
RTs with URL
530
#www2010
URLs
525
RTs
414
RTs with URL
270
#mla09
URLs 227,550
RTs 92,225
RTs with URL
58,525
scientwists
Overlap of external and internal citations
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Distribution of URLs from #mla09
#mla09
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Distribution of URLs from #www2010
#www2010
Blog; 229
Conference;
23
Error; 69 Media; 34
Press; 123
Project; 11
Publication; 4
Slides; 0
Twitter; 22 Other; 36
Categories of URLs from #mla09 (counting all URLs, n=551)
Blog; 54
Conference; 16
Error; 28
Media; 25
Press; 34
Project; 5
Publication; 3
Slides; 0
Twitter; 14 Other; 20
Categories of URLs from #mla09 (counting unique URLs only, n=199)
Blog; 68
Conference; 37
Error; 92
Media; 71
Press; 33 Project; 51
Publication; 52
Slides; 45
Twitter; 31
Other; 94
Categories of URLs from #www2010 (counting unique URLs only, n=574)
Blog; 222
Conference; 206
Error; 201
Media; 137 Press; 92
Project; 116
Publication; 135
Slides; 106
Twitter; 76
Other; 169
Categories of URLs from #www2010 (counting all URLs, n=1460)
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Distribution of given and received retweets for #www2010
RTs received
RTs given
Tweet text and ID From User RTs
Hey, guys, I've blogged about "the amplification of scholarly communication": Twitter, #MLA09, @briancroxall, & such: http://bit.ly/7SRgqZ (ID: 7221520139)
amandafrench 18
New at ProfHacker: “Academics and Social Media: #mla09 and Twitter,” by @GeorgeOnline (and a bunch of you): http://wp.me/pAGUw-19K (ID: 7566711357)
profhacker 17
"Monopolies of Invention:" text of my #MLA09 talk on labor & IP issues in humanities collaboration: http://is.gd/5Gckz (ID: 7185970970)
nowviskie 16
URL No. 1
URL No. 5
URL No. 3
Rank 3: 29 times
Rank 2: 35 times
Rank 1: 41 times
Blog Publi- cation
Rank 5
Rank 4
Error
Confe-rence
Rank 6
Conference
Rank 7
Confe-rence
Rank 9
Confe-rence
Rank 8
Slides
External citations: What is highly cited?
Rank 2: 23 times
Blog
Rank 5
Press Rank 4
Error Rank 3: 22 times
Blog
Rank 9
Blog
Rank 6
Blog
Rank 7
Press
Rank 8
Press
Blog Rank 1: 27 times
Blog
#www2010 #mla09 scientwists
Number (and %) of tweets including at least one URL
1,338 (39.85%)
525 (27.22%)
227,550 (55.42%)
Number of total URLs 1,460 551 234,731
Number of unique URLs 574 199 Approx. 180.000*
Different ways of counting external citations Distribution of internal citations
External citations: What types of websites are cited?
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External citations: Which websites are highly cited?* * Preliminary results, automatic URL clustering is currently being refined.
#www2010 #mla09
URLs from scientwists
Internal citations: Highly cited tweets from #mla09
External citations: Frequency of URLs in conference datasets
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