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Approaches to Analyzing Scientific
Communication on Twitter A project of the researchers group „Science and the Internet“
Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
The World According to Twitter workshop.
Brisbane, Australia. June 28, 2011.
Slides are online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller
Background: Science and the Internet
http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/node
NFGWIN
6 projects
8 persons
5 disciplines
1 overall topic
Background: Science and the Internet
The projects
Digital genres of publication
Educational beliefs Law and scientific
internet usage
Change of the “Publication” concept
Citations in Web 2.0 3D environments
Background: Science and the Internet
Current activities
Guest lectures
Doctoral class
Courses for academic staff
Media trainings
September 2012, Düsseldorf
Conference
Scientific Twitter usage
Work across subprojects
Background: Science and the Internet
Current activities
HHU-QUT exchange
Scientific Microblogging?
How can scientific tweets be identified?
Based on content
Based on persons
Based on formats
Analyzing Conference Tweets
• Selection of conferences
• Collection of tweets based on conference hashtags
Data Collection
• Time series
• Most active users
• User-networks
Automatic Analysis
• Categorization of tweet contents
• Key question: Are tweets dealing with the scientific topics of a conference?
Manual Analysis
• URLs in tweets („external citations“)
• Retweets („internal citations“) Citation Analysis
Data Collection
Automatic Analysis
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Manual Analysis
Categorization Scheme for Tweet Contents
1. Level: Content
1.1 Related to scientific topics of conference [YES]
1.2 Not related to scientific topics of conference [NO]
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2. Level: Purpose
2.1 Communication with others [COM]
2.2 Conference-related tweets [CONF]
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Citation Analysis on Twitter
Citations and References
• Document A cites Document B = A includes a reference to B.
• There is an information flow from B to A.
• Document B receives a citation (and thus reputation).
Citing
Document A Cited
Document B
Reputation
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Reference: see
Document B.
„Everything will
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As pointed out by
B, everything will
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Citations and References on Twitter?
External and Internal Citations
Overlap of External and Internal Citations
Overlap of External and Internal Citations
What is Highly Cited?
What is Highly Cited?
URL Categories: #www2010
URL Categories: #mla09
Future Work
Inclusion of additional conferences, comparision of disciplines
More detailed analysis of datasets based on people
Identification of „user types“
Longitudinal study: Usage patterns over time
Greetings from Düsseldorf!
#nfgwin #iwhhu
@knuurps
Evelyn Dröge
@free5pirit
Julia Verbina
@ParrPar
Parinaz Maghferat
Dr. Katrin Weller Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Dept. of Information Science Dept. of English Language and Linguistics
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.21.04.68, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.11.01.21
D-40225 Düsseldorf D-40225 Düsseldorf
E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de E-Mail: cornelius.puschmann@uni-
duesseldorf.de
Twitter: @kwelle Twitter: @coffee001
Acknowledgements:
Further Reading
• Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011, in press). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can
Citations/References be Identified and Measured? To appear in: Proceedings of the Poster
Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany.
Preprint: http://www.websci11.org/fileadmin/websci/Posters/153_paper.pdf
• Weller, K., Dröge, E., & Puschmann, C. (2011). Citation Analysis in Twitter: Approaches for
Defining and Measuring Information Flows within Tweets during Scientific Conferences. In
Matthew Rowe, Milan Stankovic, Aba-Sah Dadzie, & Mariann Hardey (Eds.), Making Sense of
Microposts (#MSM2011), Workshop at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Crete,
Greece (pp. 1-12). CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 718. http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-718/
• Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter conversations as (dynamic)
graphs: Visualization and structural comparison. Poster presented at General Online Research
(GOR 11), 14-16 March 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany. Retrieved from
http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.
• Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein
Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-Kommunikation bei wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen. In Joachim
Griesbaum, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker (Eds.), Information und Wissen: global, sozial
und frei? Proceedings des 12. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenchaft (pp. 98-
110). Boizenburg: VWH.
Selected References
• Boyd, D., Golder, S., Lotan, G.: Tweet, tweet, retweet: Conversational aspects of
retweeting on Twitter. In R. H. Sprague (Ed.), Proceedings of the 43rd Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS 10), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE (2010)
• Ebner, M., & Reinhardt, W. (2009). Social networking in scientific conferences: Twitter
as tool for strengthen a scientific community. In U. Cress; V. Dimitrova, & M. Specht
(Eds.), Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines.4th European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2009 Nice, France. Berlin: Springer.
• Letierce, J., Passant, A., Decker, S., & Breslin, J. G. (2010). Understanding how Twitter
is used to spread scientific messages. In Proceedings of the Web Science Conference
(WebSci10): Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, Raleigh, NC, USA.
• Priem, J., & Costello, K. L. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. In C.
Marshall; E. Toms, & A. Grove (Eds.), Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting
on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (pp. Article
No. 75). New York, NY: ACM.
• Ross, C., Terras, M., Warwick, C., & Welsh, A. (2011). Enabled backchannel:
Conference Twitter use by digital humanists. Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 214–
237.
Sources for images
Page 3:
Second Life: http://www.beekeepergroup.com/is-second-life-relevant/
“Blog” keyboard: http://www.timelesswebs.com/make-money-blog-money-blog/
Wikipedia citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
Page 4 (media trainings), pages 6, 9, 15, 19, 29: Microsoft ClipArt.
Photos from Düsseldorf / Brisbane (pages 4,5, 30) by Katrin Weller.