Citation Analysis in Twitter: Approaches for Defining and Measuring Information Flows within Tweets during Scientific Conferences
Published 1 January 2011
Katrin Weller, Evelyn Dröge, Cornelius Puschmann
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This paper investigates Twitter usage in scientific contexts, particu- larly the use of Twitter during scientific conferences, and proposes a methodology for capturing and analyzing citations/references in Twitter.
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Abstract. This paper investigates Twitter usage in scientific contexts, particu-larly the use of Twitter during scientific conferences. It proposes a methodology for capturing and analyzing citations/references in Twitter. First results are presented based on the analysis of tweets gathered for two conference hashtags.
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