A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging platform used by a general audience to distribute information, Mendeley is a reference manager targeted at an academic user group to organize scholarly literature. Both platforms are used as sources for so-called altmetrics to measure a new kind of research impact. This analysis shows in how far they differ and compare to traditional citation impact metrics based on a large set of PubMed papers.
@article{arxiv.1410.0569,
title = {Tweets vs. Mendeley readers: How do these two social media metrics differ?},
author = {Stefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière and Mike Thelwall and Didier Amyot and Isabella Peters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0569},
year = {2014}
}