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2. Tweeting about journal articles:
Engagement, marketing or just gibberish?
N. Robinson-Garcia1,3, R. Costas2, K. Isset3, J.
Melkers3 and D. Hicks3
1INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia (Spain)
2Centre for Studies of Science and Technology (CWTS), Leiden University, Leiden
(The Netherlands)
3School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (United States)
3. Intro What do we know about tweeting
scientific literature?
• The (non-academic) social media platform mentioning the
largest share of scientific papers – Costas, Zahedi & Wouters, 2015
• There is a low but positive correlation between citations and
tweet mentions – Haustein et al., 2014
• Most tweets include the title of the paper or summary
of contents – Thelwall et al., 2013
Photo by Clement Francis M. license CC 2.5 Attribution
4. Intro What don’t we know about tweeting
scientific literature?
• Lack of knowledge on ‘who’ is tweeting scientific literature – Ke
et al., 2017
• Lack of explanatory theories on motivations for tweeting
scientific literature – Vainio & Holmberg, 2017
• The effect of automated accounts on dissemination
of scientific literature and on derived metrics –
Haustein et al., 2016
Photo by Clement Francis M. license CC 2.5 Attribution
5. Context Dental Knowledge Networks
project
• Understanding knowledge flows from scientific literature to
professional practice in the field of Dentistry
• Diversity of potential audiences: scientists, practitioneers,
students, patients…
6. Main goal What role does Twitter play in
scholarly communication?
Case study I
• Qualitative study
1. Top 10 tweeted papers
2. Analysis of Twitter accounts
Case study II
• Quantitative study (in progress)
1. Analysis of tweets at the
journal level
2. Comparison between
citation and tweet networks
3. Analysis of Twitter activity of
journals
7. Material & Methods General dataset
• 124 dental journals from
PubMed (84 from Web of
Science)
• 196,812 research articles
• Journals assigned to specialties
• We use the PMID number to
retrieve tweets linking to the
paper from Altmetric.com
• 15,894 articles were linked from
tweets. 8.1% of the total dataset
• A total of 52,540 tweets were
identified
# JOURNALS
9. • We selected tweets originating from the United States
• A total of 8,206 tweets linking to 4,358 papers was identified
• These tweets were sent between June 2011 and June 2016
• They belonged to a total of 2,202 Twitter accounts
Case I Material and Methods
10. Top 10 most tweeted papers
1. Analyzed tweet contents and papers
2. Identified users
3. Characterized tweeting patterns
Case I Material and Methods
11. SINGLE ISSUE CAMPAIGNERS
Case I Results – Top 10 most tweeted
papers
Aminoshariae, A. and Khan, A., 2015. Acetaminophen: old drug,
new issues. Journal of Endodontics, 41(5), pp.588-593
264 tweets
73% tweets
from
@autismepi
Auto-retweets
Exc Top 2
accounts 15
tweets
Paracetamol research: [URL]
#Acetaminophen- ‘may not be considered a safe drug in
#pregnancy’-offspring behavioral disorders, hormone
disruption [URL]
12. Case I Results – Top 10 most tweeted
papers
Hujoel, P., 2009. Dietary carbohydrates and dental-systemic
diseases. Journal of Dental Research, 88(6), pp.490-502
70 tweets 70% tweets from
@AnnChildersMD
17 accounts
Top 2
accounts
retweeting
SINGLE ISSUE CAMPAIGNERS
Does it cause tooth decay or gum
disease? Avoid [URL] #LCHF
Is your diet good for your teeth and
gums? [URL]
Title + URL
13. Case I Results – Top 10 most tweeted
papers
Lamberts,D.M.,Wunderlich, R.C. and Caffesse,R.G.,1982. The Effect of Waxed and
Unwaxed Dental Floss on Gingival Health: Part I. Plaque Removal and Gingival Response.
Journal of Periodontology,53(6), pp.393-396
51 tweets Identical and
continuous tweeting
41 accounts
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS
Does wax make a difference in the effectiveness of dental
floss? Check it out: [URL]
14. Case I Results – Top 10 most tweeted
papers
Burt, B.A., 2002. Fluoridation and social equity. Journal of Public Health
Dentistry, 62 (4), pp.195-200.
59 tweets Tweets refer to
conclusions of paper
41 accounts
BROADER TWEETING
Researcher: Fluoridation is "the most effective and practical“ way
to reduce dental disparities [URL] #OralHealthEquity
15. Case I Results – Top 10 most tweeted
papers
Title Year Cites Tweets Variants @ Accts
#1 Single-issue campaigner 2015 9 264 71 103 15
#2 Single-issue campaigner 2009 36 70 30 14 17
#3 Broader tweeting 2002 42 59 4 0 41
#4 Broader tweeting 2007 159 54 3 0 33
#5 Social media manager 1982 17 51 2 0 44
#6 Single-issue campaigner 2016 12 39 13 2 34
#7 Social media manager 1999 NA 39 3 0 39
#8 Dup. tweets 2010 47 35 7 0 25
#9 Retweets from BDJ 2013 6 29 13 0 18
#10 Dup. tweets 2009 103 28 2 0 25
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183551.t001
16. Case I Results – Twitter accounts
EXAMPLES OF BOTS
•Automatic text pattern:
True or false? release(100 thick, buffer solution) [URL] #Collagen
@semantic_bot
•Human-like text pattern:
this is a mouth wash that CAN eliminate bad bacteria LIKE stop
cavity's type of good thing? Yes it has bin approve…
@gary_gschafe
17. Case I Results – Twitter accounts
EXAMPLES OF HUMANS
•The engaged tweeter:
Endosurgery has better initial success, but ReTx offers a more
favorable long-term outcome
There is a dose-response relationship btw cigarette smoking the
risk of R
@endofactologist
18. Case I Results – Twitter accounts
• Most tweets although from humans showed no engagement
with the paper
• Only 2.5% tweets came from bots
• 74% of tweeting about dental papers
was produced by people behaving
like bots
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183551.g001
19. Case II The role of journals
promoting their contents
20. • The complete dataset was used
• Out of a total of 11,026 accounts 21 were identified related to
journals
• Tweet network was overlayed from citation network
(Leydesdorff et al., 2017)
• Indicators used: tweets, self-tweets, retweets and impressions
Case II Material and Methods
21. Case II Results – General overview
Journal Association Publisher
# tweets 11825 561 85
% self-tweets 98.0% 84.8% 98.8%
# retweets 59 218 16
# impressions 9230 695 60
Attention rate 0,78 1,24 0,71
24. Case II Results – Uptake rate
0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 3
Implant Dentistry
Operative Dentistry
Head Face Medicine
J Craniofacial Surgery
Cleft Palate - Craniofacial J
J Public Health Dentistry
Oral Oncology
J Prosthodontics
J Oral Rehabilitation
European J Oral Sciences
Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology
Australian Dental J
BMC Oral Health
British Dental J
J Dental Education
J Dental Research
J Dentistry
Evidence-Based Dentistry
J Clinical Periodontology
26. Discussion Towards a better understanding
of Twitter use in scholarly communication
• Twitter activity represent rich and valuable data but we
are not capable to identify it
• The citation model does not work and should not be
encouraged in altmetric studies if the purpose is
research evaluation
• Attention, marketing and engagement are not the same,
although they are related
27. Discussion Further research
1. Does tweet engagement affects dissemination?
2. Do journals follow a selection strategy of what is
tweeted?
3. Are these strategies successful? Do they affect
readership?
28. Tweeting about journal articles:
Engagement, marketing or just gibberish?
THANK YOU!
@nrobinsongarcia, @RodrigoCostas1, @vulnerablepops, J. Melkers
and D. Hicks