Public debate on Twitter about COVID-19 based on scientific evidence: a community of attention analysis
Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific research began to be widely shared on social media, with particular emphasis on the social network X. Altmetrics helps to understand the impact of these studies and the profile of the communities that interacted with them in this environment. Ob...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8675743 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8675743 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | COVID-19 Estudos métricos da informação Comunicação Científica Comunidades Metric studies of information Scientific Communication Communities |
| Sumario: | Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific research began to be widely shared on social media, with particular emphasis on the social network X. Altmetrics helps to understand the impact of these studies and the profile of the communities that interacted with them in this environment. Objective: This case study aims to map the communities of attention network that interacted with the most shared COVID-19 article on X in Brazil between 2020 and 2022. Methodology: The article "Social Distancing Alters the Clinical Course of COVID-19 in Young Adults: A Comparative Cohort Study" was selected from the Dimensions database. Altmetric.com was used to track mentions on X, excluding retweets without comments. The data were analyzed using the VOSviewer software. Results: A total of 483 mentions on X were analyzed, with 7.03% being original tweets and 92.96% being commented retweets. The communities of attention network included 470 users, with 12 verified accounts. Most profiles were individual, with a significant presence of academic and scientific profiles, who showed concern for sharing science-based information. Conclusion: The communities of attention network on X proved to be committed to disseminating legitimate scientific information about health and protection against COVID-19. |
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