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.
@article{arxiv.1909.11340,
title = {Understanding the Twitter Usage of Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals},
author = {Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar and Mojisola Erdt and Harsha Vijayakumar and Aarthy Nagarajan and Yin-Leng Theng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11340},
year = {2019}
}
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Paper accepted for presentation at 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2019)