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Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations

March 28, 2024No Comments

From Nature, 27 March 2024: Posting about a research paper on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) doesn’t translate into a bump in citations, according to a study that looked at 550 papers. The finding comes as scientists are moving away from the platform in the wake of changes after its 2022 purchase … Continue reading Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations

Hyperauthorship: the publishing challenges for ‘big team’ science

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023No Comments

From Nature, 27 February 2023: The existence of the Higgs boson was first posited in a trio of papers in 1964. Two of those were authored solely by UK theoretical physicist Peter Higgs and the other was co-authored by his US and Belgian counterparts Robert Brout and François Englert. Nearly half a century later, the … Continue reading Hyperauthorship: the publishing challenges for ‘big team’ science