Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are
increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts …

Social media has created networked communication channels that facilitate interactions and
allow information to proliferate within professional academic communities as well as in …

Social networking media are becoming popular among students and teachers in higher
education. Researchers have also started to explore the use of social networking media for …

This article presents a two-phase study exploring the usage of technology in higher
education as well as the role of the general innovativeness in predicting the actual use of …

Social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed.
Following this trend among the general public, scholars are also increasingly adopting these …

With increasing uptake among researchers, social media are finding their way into scholarly
communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, are starting to be utilized in …

Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for
indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary …

This paper investigates disciplinary differences in how researchers use the microblogging
site Twitter. Tweets from selected researchers in ten disciplines (astrophysics, biochemistry …

The adoption level of emerging web technologies is rapidly growing in educational settings.
Given the widespread popularity of social media, it has become essential to understand and …