{"595843":{"#nid":"595843","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Tweets on Academic Papers \u2018Mechanical and Devoid of Original Thought\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch by a Georgia Tech team led by Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy,\u0026nbsp;was featured in the article \u0026ldquo;Tweets on Academic Papers \u0026lsquo;Mechanical and Devoid of Original Thought\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Times Higher Education, \u003C\/em\u003ESeptember 2\u003Cem\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe team examined\u0026nbsp;the content of 8,200 tweets from 2,200 U.S,-based Twitter accounts on the subject of 4,350 dental research papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut so far little research has looked at whether tweet counts can act as a measure of engagement with scientific literature. So a group of researchers led by Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Public Policy at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/georgia-institute-technology\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, looked at the content of 8,200 tweets from 2,200 U.S.-based Twitter accounts on the subject of 4,350 dental research papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey found that the most tweeted paper, about acetaminophen (paracetamol), accumulated 264 tweets, putting it in the top 5 percent of research outputs scored by Altmetric. The researchers found that almost 75 percent of the tweets came from the same account, which linked to the paper 65 times in a repeated tweet that said just \u0026ldquo;paracetamol research\u0026rdquo; and a further 33 times in another tweet that offered just repetitions of the same wording referring to the safety of acetaminophen in pregnancy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full article on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/tweets-academic-papers-mechanical-and-devoid-original-thought\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tweets on Academic Papers \u0026lsquo;Mechanical and Devoid of Original Thought\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; can be found on the \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E website.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-09-13 13:52:18","changed_gmt":"2017-09-20 15:01:00","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"K-12 InVenture Prize; CEISMC; STEM; K-12 education; invention; entrepreneurship;","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/tweets-academic-papers-mechanical-and-devoid-original-thought","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595848":{"id":"595848","type":"image","title":"Tweets on academic papers \u2018mechanical and devoid of original thought\u2019","body":null,"created":"1505311169","gmt_created":"2017-09-13 13:59:29","changed":"1505311169","gmt_changed":"2017-09-13 13:59:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"227081","name":"Tweets on academic papers \u2018mechanical and devoid of original thought\u2019.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tweets%20on%20academic%20papers%20%E2%80%98mechanical%20and%20devoid%20of%20original%20thought%E2%80%99.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tweets%20on%20academic%20papers%20%E2%80%98mechanical%20and%20devoid%20of%20original%20thought%E2%80%99.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":31445,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Tweets%20on%20academic%20papers%20%E2%80%98mechanical%20and%20devoid%20of%20original%20thought%E2%80%99.jpg?itok=ajsceoPy"}}},"media_ids":["595848"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"314","name":"twitter"},{"id":"175536","name":"accounts"},{"id":"3448","name":"public"},{"id":"767","name":"Policy"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"175537","name":"academic papers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}