I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work?
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Summary
The findings indicate an interdisciplinary difference in the predictive value of Facebook likes, according to which Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2015-08-05
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 71
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1958928194
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15762597
Keywords
Altmetrics, Impact factor, Immediacy, Upload, Psychology
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