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Sh Should ld We e Seek Seek f for or Educational Impact of of Research ch Articl cles s in Social M Media Metrics? Ashraf Maleki Graduate at Scientometrics University of Tehran (Iran) @ashrafmaleki malekiashraf68@gmail.com Diverse

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Sh Should ld We e Seek Seek f for

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Educational Impact of

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ch Articl cles s in Social M Media Metrics?

Ashraf Maleki

Graduate at Scientometrics University of Tehran (Iran)

@ashrafmaleki

malekiashraf68@gmail.com

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  • Scholarly impact (formal citations)
  • Educational impact

Definition: Mentions of syllabi and course descriptions to journal articles (vs. books) Also it could be mentions of Presentation files to journal articles

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Diverse vs. dominant Impact Measures

  • Kousha, K., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Assessing the Impact of Disciplinary Research on Teaching: An Automatic Analysis of

Online Syllabuses. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(13), 2060-2069.

  • Thelwall, M., & Kousha, K. (2008). Online presentations as a source of scientific impact? An analysis of PowerPoint files

citing academic journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(5), 805-815.

  • Thelwall, M., & Kousha, K. (2017). SlideShare presentations, citations, users, and trends: A professional site with academic

and educational uses. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(8), 1989-2003.

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Impact Attributes of Social Media Metrics

Weblogs

Scholarly impact All - weak correlation with citations (Thelwall, et al, 2013) Educational impact Wikipedia - high books citation coverage and correlations (Kousha & Thelwall, 2017) Weblogs – potential relevance (Kirkup, 2010) Public impact Weblogs – potential relevance (Kirkup, 2010) Tweets – not clear

  • Kirkup, G. (2010). Academic blogging: academic practice and academic identity. London Review of Education, 8(1), 75-

84.

  • Kousha, K., & Thelwall, M. (2017). Are Wikipedia citations important evidence of the impact of scholarly articles and

books? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 68(3), 762-779.

  • Thelwall, M., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2013). Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web
  • Services. PloS one, 8(5).
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Using Social Media in Education?

  • Education “is a social, not an individual process” (Hrastinski &

Aghaee, 2010)

  • Students use social media to share and discuss about their

education (Veletsianos, 2012)

  • evidence suggests their limited participation in networking and

sharing in educational courses that involve use of social media (Veletsianos & Navarrete, 2012)

  • there is far less evidence on extent of students use of social

media for sharing scholarly articles which are part of course reading lists.

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Research Goal

  • To speculate whether or not we can attribute

educational impact to social media metrics

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Research Questions

  • 1. Which fields have the highest uptake in syllabi?
  • 2. To what extent of journal articles in each field in

Scopus are mentioned in syllabi? (uptake of journal in a field)

  • 3. To what extent of titles in a Scopus journal are

mentioned in syllabi, blogs, Wikipedia and Twitter?

  • 4. How correlated are Syllabus mentions and social

media metrics?

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Dataset & Method: Main Collection

Methods to extract Syllabi mentions to journal articles:

  • Searching online Syllabi and course reading lists in

University websites using Bing search engine (Kousha & Thelwall, 2008) Open Syllabus Project (OSP)

  • Former URL: explorer.opensyllabusproject.org
  • Current URL: https://opensyllabus.org

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Dataset & Method: Sample

  • Coverage of top 5000 journals in

OSP in terms of Number of Journals from each Subject and Number of Titles

  • Only 14 top journals in terms of

number of articles in syllabi in 2018 August

  • Citations and DOIs of 164,464

articles (1880-2019) from Scopus.

  • Tweet counts, Wikipedia and Blog

citations are collected from Altmetric.com via DOIs

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To what extent of journal articles in each field in Scopus are mentioned in syllabi?

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How much users tweeting the articles are in each other’s network?

3487 936 991 574 724 693 411 705 479 298 1052 415 770 573

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Median metrics

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Correlations with Syllabus Mentions

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Discussion

  • Correlation were insignificant or week
  • Mainly because journal articles are used less in

syllabi in line with (Kousha & Thelwall, 2017) but not that of journals articles (5%)

  • People generally do not trust social media as a

source of educational content (debate of authenticity of Wikipedia citations)

  • Books vs. journal articles in syllabi and Wikipedia
  • Blog are an emerging academic practice
  • Education takes place locally

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Conclusions

  • Educational impact interferes with uptake of

research for social reasons

  • educational impact of academic articles might be

closely related to social, cultural or historical aspects of research

  • Educational impact difficult to harness in the face
  • f larger uptake of research for reasons

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Acknowledgement

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goes to Altmetric.com for supporting access to data.

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Questions?

Ashraf Maleki

Master Graduate at Scientom etrics U niversity of T ehran (I ran)

@ashrafmaleki

malekiashraf68@gmail.com