Twitter, altmetrics and science communication

Last week we got published in PLOS One a paper entitled ‘The unbearable emptiness of tweeting – About journal articles‘. Such provocative title was difficult to go unnoticed and almost immediately and ironically, people started to engage with it in Twitter commenting, criticizing and praising the paper. Among critiques, there were some regarding to the field analyzed (Dentistry), the fact that we focus our tweet analysis on the top 10 most tweeted papers or the feeling that our main message was that tweeting about research was a complete waste of time. Read more “Twitter, altmetrics and science communication” →