Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In the age of social media, scientists are no longer limited to traditional forms of scholarly communication and dissemination of research.Social networks, blogs, and micro-blogs allow scientists to promote their work and gain recognition among an audience wider than their peers alone.We researched four categories of blog posts from the blog aggregator ResearchBlogging.org(RB), which aggregates peer-reviewed research, to determine whether RB bloggers cite their own research, and to what extent.We found that the population of self-citers in our sample is very homogenous: The average selfciter is male, has earned a PhD, and is affiliated with a university or a research institute.
Authors: Shema, Hadas, Bar-Ilan, Judit, Thelwall, Mike
Institutions: University of Wolverhampton, Bar-Ilan University
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2735865739