%0 Online Multimedia %A Taylor, Michael %D 2014 %T Is there anybody out there? Searching the social space for signs of intelligence %U https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Is_there_anybody_out_there_Searching_the_social_space_for_signs_of_intelligence/1014266 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.1014266.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1482545 %K socialreach %K altmetrics %K Bibliometrics %K Science Policy %K Applied Computer Science %X

For much of the the last century, our only measurement of the impact of scholarly research has been through the counting and analysis of citation: one authoring researcher acknowledging the contribution of another authoring researcher.

Significant, certainly, given these caveats, but in a wider social context citation analysis begins to look like an edge case. Can the measurement of sharing on social networks provide a wider view of how research is consumed in society, or is it all chatter and noise – and how do we detect the conversations of true significance?

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