11. INFODEMIOLOGY
• Tweets predict citations
• Search engine queries predict influenza
• Tweets during the H1N1 pandemic correlated with
incidence rates
• Tweets about a movie accurately predict its success
at the box office prior to initial screening.
12.
13.
14. Do you feel like this?
I just don’t
get Twitter
18. Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of
Social Impact Based on Twitter and
Correlation with Traditional Metrics of
Scientific Impact
Gunther Eysenbach
JMIR (2011)
Highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly
cited than less-tweeted articles (9/12 or 75% of highly tweeted
article were highly cited, while only 3/43 or 7% of less-tweeted
articles were highly cited; rate ratio 0.75/0.07 = 10.75, 95%
confidence interval, 3.4–33.6). Top-cited articles can be
predicted from top-tweeted articles with 93% specificity and
75% sensitivity.
19. The odds of an article being highly
cited were significantly increased by a
mention in social media; OR 2.58,
p<0.001
20. How to be useful on twitter
• Tweets should contain links
• Tweets can be linked to pictures
24. 23/11/2016
People use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant
keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize
those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter
Search.
Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you
all other Tweets marked with that keyword.
(Twitter support)
28. How to be useful on twitter
• Tweets should contain links
• Tweets can be linked to pictures
• Tweets should use hashtags
• Minimise trivia
• Retweet interesting material
29. How to be useful on twitter
• Tweets should contain links
• Tweets can be linked to pictures
• Tweets should use hashtags
• Minimise trivia
• Retweet interesting material
• Don’t be offensive…beware of the ‘career-ending’
tweet!
30. 23/11/2016
Altmetrics
In scholarly and scientific publishing, Altmetrics are new
metrics proposed as an alternative to the widely used
journal impact factor and personal citation indices like the
h-index.
(Wikipedia)
32. 23/11/2016
A blog (short for ‘weblog) is a website containing a writer’s
or a group of writers’ own experiences, observations,
opinions, etc. and often having images and links to other
websites.
(adapted from Dictionary.com)
33.
34. 23/11/2016
The largest video sharing site on the Web. YouTube lets
anyone upload short videos for private or public viewing.
(PC News)
• 20 hours of video uploaded every minute
• 100 years of video uploaded every day
37. Making it work
• Don’t run your social networking sites in isolation
• Develop a strategy for promoting your work and profile
• Decide what your essential content is
• Decide how you are going to get it ‘out there’
38. 10 top tips for academics on blogging and
social media (Matthew Reisz, THE 2015)
• Think through carefully exactly what you want to achieve by
engaging with social media
• Consider producing social media content as a normal part of
your working life
• Develop a sense of the advantages and limitations of each
different platform
• Be realistic about the time available to you – it may be more
effective to engage on one platform than to spread yourself
across many
39. 10 top tips for academics on blogging and
social media
• Be aware of who might see what you are publishing online,
but don’t become paralysed by overestimating your visibility
and the potential risks that come from this
• Make your blogs easier to find and navigate by tagging and
categorising the contents
• Always include details of your blog in any conference
presentations
• Make sure all your friends, colleagues and collaborators
know about your blog
40. 10 top tips for academics on blogging and
social media
• Set up automated links on Twitter to announce each new
blogpost – and allow people to subscribe to your blogs by
email
• If you use Twitter to promote a blog post, make sure the title
is clear and self-explanatory.
41. Link your social networking sites - TRANSMIT
Website
YouTube
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LinkedIn
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& Metrics
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42. Link your social networking sites - EMBED
Website
YouTube
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LinkedIn
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& Metrics
email
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43. Link your social networking sites - NETWORK
Website
YouTube
Twitter
LinkedIn
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Publications
& Metrics
email
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44. Link your social networking sites - COLLATERAL
Website
YouTube
Twitter
LinkedIn
Blog
Publications
& Metrics
email
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