{"595500":{"#nid":"595500","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hicks and Colleagues\u0027 Highly Tweeted Paper Covered in Higher Times Education Article","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy professor Diana Hicks, along with associate SPP professors Julia Melkers and Kimberley Isett and visiting researcher Nicolas Robinson-Garcia,\u0026nbsp;recently published:\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;The Unbearable Emptiness of Tweeting -- about journal articles,\u0026quot; in PLOS ONE\u0026nbsp;and within a week the article had accumulated 10,000 pageviews, 700\u0026nbsp;downloads\u0026nbsp;and 625\u0026nbsp;tweets.\u0026nbsp;The attention prompted\u0026nbsp;a report\u0026nbsp;in the\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Times Higher Education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article for the\u0026nbsp;quartet\u0026nbsp;of Georgia Tech Public Policy scholars was published in PLOS ONE on August 24. According to the article\u0026#39;s abstract (which can be found\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0183551\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E), the main goal is, \u0026quot;to better comprehend the role Twitter plays in scholarly communication and the potential value of tweet counts as traces of broader engagement with scientific literature.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the insights that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Earticle (which can be found\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/tweets-academic-papers-mechanical-and-devoid-original-thought\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E) discusses is how the team of Georgia Tech scholars, \u0026quot;found that the most tweeted paper, about acetaminophen (paracetamol), accumulated 264 tweets, putting it in the top 5 per cent of research outputs scored by Altmetric.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Diana Hicks and other Georgia Tech colleagues recently published an article on Twitter usage"}],"uid":"34516","created_gmt":"2017-09-05 17:39:04","changed_gmt":"2017-09-06 07:22:39","author":"SLawrence42","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588776":{"id":"588776","type":"image","title":"Professor Diana Hicks\u00a0","body":null,"created":"1489525536","gmt_created":"2017-03-14 21:05:36","changed":"1498597292","gmt_changed":"2017-06-27 21:01:32","alt":"Professor Diana Hicks ","file":{"fid":"224382","name":"Diana Hicks.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":130796,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg?itok=d295rk60"}}},"media_ids":["588776"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}