Identifying and characterizing social media communities: a socio-semantic network approach to altmetrics.

Autor/inn/en	Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao; Torres-Salinas, Daniel; Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
Titel	Identifying and characterizing social media communities: a socio-semantic network approach to altmetrics.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2021) 11, S.9267-9289 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-021-04167-8
Schlagwörter	Network analysis; Socio-semantic networks; Altmetrics; Twitter; Information science and library Science; Microbiology
Abstract	Abstract Altmetric indicators allow exploring and profiling individuals who discuss and share scientific literature in social media. But it is still a challenge to identify and characterize communities based on the research topics in which they are interested as social and geographic proximity also influence interactions. This paper proposes a new method which profiles social media users based on their interest on research topics using altmetric data. Social media users are clustered based on the topics related to the research publications they share in social media. This allows removing linkages which respond to social or personal proximity and identifying disconnected users who may have similar research interests. We test this method for users tweeting publications from the fields of Information Science & Library Science, and Microbiology. We conclude by discussing the potential application of this method and how it can assist information professionals, policy managers and academics to understand and identify the main actors discussing research literature in social media.
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Update	2023/2/05