Gràcies a @juanmanfredi i a un seu tweet he vist l’article de 2014 d’un grup de la Univ. Wisconsin-Madison LSC researchers find link between scientists’ public engagement and citation rates, que dóna una visió complementària al post que vaig fer ahir sobre l’Efecte Carl Sagan. Segons el blog esmentat, que comenta una publicació al Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly titulada Building Buzz. (Scientists) Communicating Science in New Media Environments, hi ha una correlació entre l’índex h de publicacions científiques i lesmencions a twitter amb la relació amb els mitjans de comunicació.
Combining Twitter and citation data with survey responses from scientists, SciMeP researchers showed a positive link between a scientist talking to journalists and his or her citation rates. Interestingly, the link is significantly stronger when that’s coupled with a Twitter presence.
“Our results highlight the importance of public communication, particularly if it includes multiple activities, on researchers’ academic reach,” said Dominique Brossard, the chair of the department and another co-principal investigator for the group. “In short, boundaries between academia and public contexts are blurry and likely to become even blurrier as more scientists embrace social media.”
The study asked researchers how often they talk to journalists, and combined these responses with data on scientists’ Twitter presence and citation rates. To get at the latter, the study examined h-indices, which explains how well cited a researcher is by telling how many articles a scientists has published with as many citations. For example, an h-index of 33 means that researcher has 33 papers that are each cited 33 times.
Però ahir jo ja ho deia també per a l’efecte Carl Sagan:
It could be that it’s not just public engagement that leads to higher citation rates, but that it’s those with already high citation rates who are engaging.
En tot cas, és clar que
“These new media allow you to amplify your science. If we talk to journalists about this and tweet about it it’ll be more effective than just talking to a journalist. One explanation is that the more publicity an article gets the more likely it also ends up on the desks of your colleagues. If it’s written about and publicized on Twitter I’ll probably investigate more and pass it on so more people look at it. Then that may result in that study getting cited more.”
Aquest article relaciona les cites acadèmiques, twitter i la relació amb els mitjans. Em sembla interessant. El que sí que he constatat és que sortir a un diari, a la ràdio o a la TV, incrementa l’activitat a les xarxes socials. Si això impulsa les cites acadèmiques, no en tinc evidència, però aquest article sembla indicar-ho.
Imatge extreta de http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40992/title/Science-Gone-Social/ de Dusan Petricic.