Title
Beyond citations: Scholars' visibility on the social Web
Abstract
Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters' Web "footprints." We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars' publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Data science,Visibility,World Wide Web,Web presence,Social web,Computer science,Citation,Scopus
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1205.5611
50
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.88
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Judit Bar-Ilan11638124.05
Stefanie Haustein249727.06
Isabella Peters336425.62
Jason Priem446824.91
Hadas Shema51847.55
Jens Terliesner61577.27