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Tagged with social-media citations
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My paper is being cited in vaccine misinformation. What do I do?
I have recently discovered that anti-vaxxers have been citing one of my papers on Twitter and elsewhere as evidence of a specific 5G-related conspiracy theory surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. Of ...
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How can I find the altmetrics for a specific paper?
Alternative metrics for a paper, include not just the citations in other academic journals, but also all Twitter mentions, citations in Wikipedia, citations across the Stack Exchange network, etc.
The ...
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Why publish a research paper when a blog post or a lecture slide can have more citation count than a journal paper?
I am quite surprised to find that a lecture slide for a course has 133 citations from highly reputable researchers across the world. The main contribution of the lecture slides (which seems to be the ...
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Is there a celebrity culture in academia and should we discourage it? [closed]
I work in STEM, and in recent years I have been troubled by this trend in academia where certain individuals are elevated to the status of celebrities. Their appearances alone draw crowds in the ...
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How to see how many times a document has been cited?
I'm working on my thesis and I'd like to see if some documents that I'll use have been used before to see if the topic and focus I'm working on has been done before. At the moment it seems it hasn't, ...
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What can I do about newspaper with poor referencing?
Newspapers often like to report on new scientific advancements.
They often do a terrible job.
They may sensationalise the story.
Or confuse a project proposal/preliminary study with a result.
We can ...
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Cite a Twitter conversation?
Let's assume that while researching and writing a paper you find a Twitter conversation between domain experts that is particularly useful for you.
Given that it is not the sources that these ...
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Citing a link that was removed?
I run a small blog about both the academic and professional aspects of my industry as I both teach a course at the university I am attending as well as work in the industry full time. The blog answers ...
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