How and why scholars cite on Twitter
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How and why scholars cite on Twitter
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 fas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701201