What does Twitter Measure?: Influence of Diverse User Groups in Altmetrics

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2015-June, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-128

  Barthel, Simon ^a   Tönnies, Sascha ^a   Köhncke, Benjamin ^a   Siehndel, Patrick ^a   Balke, Wolf Tilo ^a  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

altmetrics; correlation analysis; expert mining; social media; twitter

Indexed keywords

METADATA; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALTMETRICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIGH QUALITY; HOMOGENEOUS GROUP; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; PUBLIC LIBRARY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84952027070     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2756406.2756913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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