Who tweets climate change papers? investigating publics of research through users' descriptions.

ABSTRACT: As social issues like climate change become increasingly salient, digital traces left by scholarly documents can be used to assess their reach outside of academia. Our research examine who shared climate change research papers on Twitter by looking at the expressions used in profile descriptions. We categorized users in eight categories (academia, communication, political, professional, personal, organization, bots and publishers) associated to specific expressions. Results indicate how diverse publics may be represented in the communication of scholarly documents on Twitter. Supplementing our word detection analysis with qualitative assessments of the results, we highlight how the presence of unique or multiple categorizations in textual Twitter descriptions provides evidence of the publi

SUBMITTER: Toupin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9165795 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature