Towards the social media studies of science: social media metrics, present and future

01/13/2018

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by   Rodrigo Costas, et al.

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In this paper we aim at providing a general reflection around the present and future of social media metrics (or altmetrics) and how they could evolve into a new discipline focused on the study of the relationships and interactions between science and social media, in what could be seen as the social media studies of science.