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closeOnly tweets where the article is linked?
Posted by egonw on 27 Aug 2017 at 07:56 GMT
From the Methods I get the impression you did not include replies to tweets linking to the research articles. Unlike retweets, quoted tweets comes closer to this and can contain additional comments. But in my experience it is often the discussion that follows the tweets with the link to the paper that contain the actual discussion. As if the tweet is more like an invitation to start talking about that paper.
Can you confirm you did not include replies to tweets linking to research articles in your analysis? If so, can you elaborate on your expectation with respect to your findings and conclusions?
RE: Only tweets where the article is linked?
nrobinson-garcia replied to egonw on 29 Aug 2017 at 07:41 GMT
Many thanks for your comment Egon. You are correct that the data in the paper includes only tweets linking to the paper. This is because Altmetric.com data about tweets referencing papers contains only tweets with an explicit link. Thus, metrics reporting the number of tweets discussing a paper only count such tweets. Your comment, as well as the experience we are having with the ‘deliciously ironic’ attention the paper is receiving on Twitter have raised an important issue which is not reflected in the paper. Twitter works as a kind of tree from which different branches can emerge, tweets and retweets can become a starting point for conversations carried out through replies. Though advocates of altmetric indicators point to the value of such conversations, they are actually missing from altmetric data because after the first tweet, the replies do not link to the paper.