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Meta-analysis of studies on Twitter users disseminating scholarly publications
Authors: Maleki Ashraf, Holmberg Kim
Editors: Robinson-Garcia Nicola, Torres-Salinas Daniel, Arroyo-Machado Wenceslao
Conference name: International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators
Publication year: 2022
Book title : STI 2022 "From Global Indicators to Local Applications" Conference Proceedings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6975686
Web address : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6975686
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/178449198
The current study took a meta-analytical approach to summarize the results from earlier studies that had attempted to answer the question about who is tweeting scientific content. The methodological challenges of our approach stemmed from the earlier studies using different data and somewhat different categorizations. Our results demonstrate the importance of individuals, and in particular individual academics, in the dissemination of scientific articles on Twitter. Our results also highlight the need for a more structured and unified categorization, as a significant proportion of the results in earlier studies have been unclear.
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