Characteristics of blogs and bloggers in the science
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A lecture I gave in the International Conference on Science and the Internet 2012 (#cosci12), August 3, 2012.
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Characteristics of blogs and bloggers in the science
- 1. CHARACTERISTICS OF BLOGS, BLOGGERS AND SELF-CITATION IN THE SCIENCE BLOGOSPHERE Hadas Shema, Judit Bar-Ilan and Mike Thelwall CoScI 2012 : Conference on Science and the Internet 2012
- 2. Post-Publication Peer Review • Wolfe-Simon et al. (2011). A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus. Science (published online in December 2, 2010) • Extensively criticized in Blogs and Twitter (See “Arsenic Bacteria link-dump,” Blog Around the Clock). #arseniclife • 8 comments eventually published by Science on May 27, 2011 • Article mentioned in about 1,330 blog posts (Google Blog Search, July 2012, for exact title)
- 3. Detective Work • A “Citation Cartel” discovered by blogger Phil Davis from the Scholarly Kitchen (“The emergence of a Citation Cartel,” Davis, P. 2012, Apr 10). • Review articles written to increase journals’ impact factors and published in other journals. • Three out of the four offenders were suspended from the JCR (“Citation cartel journals denied 2011 Impact Factor,” Davis, P. 2012, June 29). • Two articles retracted due to citation manipulation (“A first? Papers retracted for citation manipulation,” Oransky, I. ,2012 July 5)
- 4. ResearchBlogging.Org • Aggregates blog posts citing peer-reviewed research. • “ResearchBlogging.org allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases.”
- 5. Blog Citations – A Transition Phase
- 6. First Sample • 126 non-commercial blogs, by one or two authors, with more than 20 entries posted at RB during 2010 • Reviewed journals based on last five posts in each blog
- 7. Most cited journals according to number of blog citations
- 8. @DrVes: Research Bloggers show a preference for papers from high- impact journals - just like everyone else on earth
- 9. Mendeley and WoS Ranking
- 11. Second Sample • Four RB categories • Computer Science/Engineering, • Ecology/Conservation, • Philosophy • Mathematics • Only blogs and posts with known authors
- 12. Quotes from self-citing bloggers “I am a coauthor on a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology I thought I would promote here.” Jonathan Eisen, Tree of Life “What did my work show? Deep-sea nematodes have a complex evolutionary history…” Holly Bik, Deep Sea New “Yay! First paper of my postdoc is out in the August 2011 issue of Global Change Biology! Woohoo! So, what have I been doing for the past few years of my life? In brief summary: Kelp. Food webs. Climate change. A potent combination.” Jeremy Yoder, I'm a chordata! urochordata!
- 13. Posts and self-citing posts Category posts self-citing posts Ecology/Conservation 612 31(5%) Computer 407 35(9%) Science/Engineering Philosophy 182 17(9%) Mathematics 173 18(10%)
- 14. Bloggers and self-citers Category Bloggers Self-citers Ecology/Conservation 132 17(13%) Computer 93 19(20%) Science/Engineering Philosophy 64 11(17%) Mathematics 89 8(9%)
- 15. Gender Distribution Among Bloggers
- 17. Limitations • RB blogs only • Anonymous bloggers • Relatively small number of self-citers • Blogger does not always equals peer- reviewed author • Four disciplines • Based on Web profiles
- 18. Overall Findings • The self-citation rate was low and varied by category. • Self-citers were a more homogenous group than the rest of the RB population
- 19. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- RB posts are the “transition phase” between the citation in formal communication and the free-form writing of blogs“Blog citation” – journal referenced in a blog post in our sample
- My favorite tweet about our research. Summarizes most of our first research in less than 140 characters
- As you can see, this post belongs to several disciplines in our study, and therefore was considered both in the computer science/engineering category and in the ecology/conservation category
- While there’s definitely an element of promotion in self-citing, it’s also has to do a lot with “My research is awesome, let me tell you all about it!”
- Women are underrepresented in science blogging. Only 22% of the blogs are written or co-written by women. These are results from our first sample. Women are even less represented in the self-citers population. We had 45 self citers overall (after we removed duplicates), 39 men and 6 women.