Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 656-669

  Haustein, Stefanie ^a,b   Peters, Isabella ^c   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^d   Thelwall, Mike ^e   Larivière, Vincent ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Science Metrix   (Canada)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION IMPACT; IMPACT METRICS; JOURNAL ARTICLES; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84899656083     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23101     Document Type: Article

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