{"id":68,"date":"2013-12-10T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-12-17T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:17:46","slug":"science-popular-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/science-popular-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Popular on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_74\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74\" title=\"Twitter logo\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_blue_small\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small-300x243.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small-300x243.png 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small-369x300.png 369w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers have used Twitter to rate the most popular biomedicine journal articles published between 2010 and 2012. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/about.twitter.com\/press\/brand-assets\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Scientists normally use the number of citations to rank the impact of a scientific paper, but can popularity on Twitter form another metric? Researchers looked at over 1.4 million peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012 and determined how many times they were tweeted. They found that articles on health topics were tweeted the most, the #1 being an article on the effects of radiation on humans.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Original <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/asi.23101\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">research article<\/a>\u00a0(open access) published in\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>November 26, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lariviere.ebsi.umontreal.ca\/en-Index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Larivi\u00e8re<\/a>, \u00c9cole de biblioth\u00e9conomie et des sciences de l&#8217;information, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\nStefanie Haustein,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.science-metrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science-Metrix Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/udem-news\/news\/20131209-peer-review-science-is-taking-off-on-twitter-but-who-is-tweeting-what-and-why.html\" target=\"_blank\">Press release<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists normally use the number of citations to rank the impact of a scientific paper, but can popularity on Twitter form another metric? Researchers looked at over 1.4 million peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012 and determined how many times they were tweeted. They found that articles on health topics were tweeted the most, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bibliometrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Twitter_logo_blue_small.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}