Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for the Impact of Social Sciences blog. In the post I talk about a recent paper correlating tweets and citations (also discussed on this blog). But the main argument I try to make is that tweets are a powerful filter for personalized scholarly content:

A few years from now the “personalized journal” will have replaced the traditional journal as the primary means to discover new scholarly papers with impact to our work.

References

  1. Admin, B. (2012, February 9). Do more tweets mean higher citations? If so, Twitter can lead us to the ‘personalised journal’; pinpointing more research that is relevant to your interests. - LSE Impact. LSE Impact - Understanding Impact and Practice in Academic Research. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/02/09/more-tweets-more-citations/
  2. Fenner, M. (2011, December 20). CrowdoMeter – or trying to understand tweets about journal papers. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/mqwrg-sz979