Social impact in social media: A new method to evaluate the social impact of research.

ABSTRACT: The social impact of research has usually been analysed through the scientific outcomes produced under the auspices of the research. The growth of scholarly content in social media and the use of altmetrics by researchers to track their work facilitate the advancement in evaluating the impact of research. However, there is a gap in the identification of evidence of the social impact in terms of what citizens are sharing on their social media platforms. This article applies a social impact in social media methodology (SISM) to identify quantitative and qualitative evidence of the potential or real social impact of research shared on social media, specifically on Twitter and Facebook. We define the social impact coverage ratio (SICOR) to identify the percentage of tweets and Facebook posts p

SUBMITTER: Pulido CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114920 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature