Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals

Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar; Mojisola Erdt; Harsha Vijayakumar; Aarthy Nagarajan; Yin Leng Theng

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_6

Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals

Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar^*, Mojisola Erdt, Harsha Vijayakumar, Aarthy Nagarajan, Yin Leng Theng

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Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

This paper investigates the Twitter interaction patterns of journals from the Science Citation Index (SCI) of Master Journal List (MJL). A total of 953,253 tweets extracted from 857 journal accounts, were analyzed in this study. Findings indicate that SCI journals interacted more with each other but much less with journals from other citation indices. The network structure of the communication graph resembled a tight crowd network, with Nature journals playing a major part. Information sources such as news portals and scientific organizations were mentioned more in tweets, than academic journal Twitter accounts. Journals with high journal impact factors (JIFs) were found to be prominent hubs in the communication graph. Differences were found between the Twitter usage of SCI journals with Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future - 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Adam Jatowt, Akira Maeda, Sue Yeon Syn
Publisher	Springer
Pages	54-60
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783030340575
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_6
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: Nov 4 2019 → Nov 7 2019

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11853 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	11/4/19 → 11/7/19

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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

Keywords

Journals
Science Citation Index
Social media
Social network analysis
Twitter

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Sesagiri Raamkumar, A., Erdt, M., Vijayakumar, H., Nagarajan, A., & Theng, Y. L. (2019). Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals. In A. Jatowt, A. Maeda, & S. Y. Syn (Eds.), Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future - 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019, Proceedings (pp. 54-60). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11853 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_6

Sesagiri Raamkumar, Aravind ; Erdt, Mojisola ; Vijayakumar, Harsha et al. / Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals. Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future - 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019, Proceedings. editor / Adam Jatowt ; Akira Maeda ; Sue Yeon Syn. Springer, 2019. pp. 54-60 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals. / Sesagiri Raamkumar, Aravind; Erdt, Mojisola; Vijayakumar, Harsha et al.
Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future - 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019, Proceedings. ed. / Adam Jatowt; Akira Maeda; Sue Yeon Syn. Springer, 2019. p. 54-60 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11853 LNCS).

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Sesagiri Raamkumar A, Erdt M, Vijayakumar H, Nagarajan A, Theng YL. Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals. In Jatowt A, Maeda A, Syn SY, editors, Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future - 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2019, Proceedings. Springer. 2019. p. 54-60. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_6

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