Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics
Can tweets predict future citations? A study of article tweets raises validity and ethical concerns.
Can tweets predict future citations? A study of article tweets raises validity and ethical concerns.
Rebuttals are cited less, don’t change citation patterns for original papers, and generally fall flat. And you thought science was self-correcting?
Promises of more citations if authors pay are problematic in more ways than one.
A study showing that randomized controlled trials don’t cite much of the preceding literature suggests there’s a problem, but it’s unclear exactly what the problem is.
A study from ACM suggests that selectivity — both being selective and being known as selective — has a citation benefit.
Is there a good case against linking? Or are links just an updated version of an old idea?
Scientists appear to be reading more AND citing less. Are these two findings compatible?
A new study shows conflicting results over whether scholars are citing fewer papers. Is science becoming more elite or more democratic?