Maryam Esmaeilzadeh; Shokoufeh Bonakdaran; Heidar Mokhtari; Ali Ouchi
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This applied altmetric study aimed to analyze the presence of highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus in online social media and correlate their altmetric attention scores with their received citation counts. Twenty thousand highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus were identified in Scopus and ...
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This applied altmetric study aimed to analyze the presence of highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus in online social media and correlate their altmetric attention scores with their received citation counts. Twenty thousand highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus were identified in Scopus and their altmetric attention scores (ASSs) were extracted from Altmetric Explorer (Altmetric LLP, London, UK). Received citation rates of the documents were extracted from Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and Dimensions. Excell 2016 and SPSS 22 were used for data statistical description and analysis. Out of 19,383 DOI-owner highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus, 16,076 (82.94%) were shared at least once in social media and had an altmetric attention score. Mendeley ranked first in sharing documents with 16,868 documents (87.02%). Six hundred forty-six thousand one hundred eighty-four tweets were tweeted on the studied documents from 222 countries, with the United States as first-ranked country (17,453 tweets, 18.2%). The highest-mentioned journal was the Lancet, and the highest-mentioned research institute was Harvard University. A significantly positive correlation was found between the altmetric attention scores of the studied documents and their citation counts in Google scholar (r= .842, p<.01), Scopus (r=.855, p<.01), Web of Science (r=.709, p<.05) and Dimensions (r= .841, p< .01). Regarding the central role of presence in social media in increasing the visibility and citability of documents, researchers must use the potentiality of social media and Web 2 tools for more sharing their scientific works and increasing the influence of their research output. In this study the relationship between the presence of documents in online social media and tools and their received citation rates was investigated in a large sample (20,000 diabetes mellitus documents). The results benefit researchers and research administrators for sharing and publicizing research output in social media.
Antonius Pratama; Andi Emanuel; Yulius Harjoseputro
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Social media, widely known by the public, has become one of the tools to facilitate written expressions in daily life. The adoption individuals from various backgrounds use this technology, ranging from children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Social media positively influences human life, but ...
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Social media, widely known by the public, has become one of the tools to facilitate written expressions in daily life. The adoption individuals from various backgrounds use this technology, ranging from children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Social media positively influences human life, but various parties can also misuse it with harmful desires. One example of adverse treatment on social media is cyberbullying, which is now no longer a stranger in social life. In this research, the Social Network Analysis method is chosen to identify the distribution patterns of cyberbullying on social media. This method is used to analyze the required metrics such as indegree centrality, outdegree centrality, betweenness centrality, and reciprocity to understand the reasons for the spread of an event. This study has understood the distribution patterns of cyberbullying actions on social media by looking at communication between users and their relationships to find out the reasons for the perpetrators of cyberbullying actions. This result significantly impacts the community by better understanding the procedures in social media to avoid other users' bad behavior.
De-Graft Johnson Dei; Linda Anane-Donkor; Frimpong Okyere
Volume 20, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 123-139
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Social media usage trends have established a drastic jump from 5% in 2005 to 72% in 2021. This study, therefore, sought to investigate the extent to which social media is being used to facilitate information dissemination by students in Ghanaian Universities. The Uses and gratifications theory (UGT) ...
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Social media usage trends have established a drastic jump from 5% in 2005 to 72% in 2021. This study, therefore, sought to investigate the extent to which social media is being used to facilitate information dissemination by students in Ghanaian Universities. The Uses and gratifications theory (UGT) which seeks to explain why and how people actively seek out specific media to satisfy specific needs was used as the theoretical framework for the study. The descriptive research design was used to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from respondents across tertiary institutions in Ghana. The study established that social media serves as one of the vital tools for learning and information dissemination among the students. The students used social media for academic work more than for recreational activities. They access social media through the mobile devices they own and are connected to the internet. Whiles the majority of them had only one social media account, a significant proportion had more than one social media account. Although they somewhat trust the information on social media, they only consider it to be genuine unless it is related or find it relevant in the field of academics.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.3.8.5
Vysakh C; Dr Rajendra Babu H
Volume 20, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 257-276
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled the surge of various kinds of misinformation, hoax, conspiracy theories and rumours which have challenged the health systems all over the globe. The present study explored how Indians responded to the Misinfodemic, as a notice as well as an information ...
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled the surge of various kinds of misinformation, hoax, conspiracy theories and rumours which have challenged the health systems all over the globe. The present study explored how Indians responded to the Misinfodemic, as a notice as well as an information sharer during the deadly pandemic. The study also elucidated the cyberchondria experiences among the Indians due to the misinfodemic. An online survey questionnaire was used to identify the respondents and to collect the needed data for the study (N=266). The result showed that the majority of the participants noticed misinformation regarding the outbreak on various internet platforms predominantly social media. The misinformation led the participants to a spectrum of mental health issues like stress, anxiety, anger, insomnia and depression. 9.80% of participants admitted themselves sharing misinformation regarding the outbreak and men did more compared to females (16.9% to 9.2%) (t143.006 = 1.572, p =.001). The misinfodemic resulted in increasing the health anxiety of the participants and there was no significant difference among the gender in experiencing health anxiety. The findings of the study provide functional insights for advancing communication research through misinformation correction and misperception management during these kinds of unknown (medicine and treatment) pandemic situations.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.3.15.2
Afnan Mohammed Shaban
Volume 20, Issue 1 , January 2022
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The research is concerned with studying the audience's use of social media in obtaining health information and their satisfaction. It aims to determine the hours of public use of social media, know the level of information, and know the level of health knowledge of the audience from social media. An ...
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The research is concerned with studying the audience's use of social media in obtaining health information and their satisfaction. It aims to determine the hours of public use of social media, know the level of information, and know the level of health knowledge of the audience from social media. An intended sample of (200) members of the University of Baghdad employees and professors who use social media were chosen. The search reached results, the most important is that the audience always uses social media. Social media for long hours, the results indicate that the use of social media is linked to the achievement of gratifications with a significant relationship, which indicates that social media sites achieve what users want from them.https://dorl.net/dor/ 20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.1.7.0
Jafar Mehrad; Zohre Eftekhar; Marzieh Goltaji
Volume 18, Issue 1 , February 2020, , Pages 17-24
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The hypodermic needle theory is a prominent theory in social media that affects the understanding, attitudes, and behavior of individuals. In this viewpoint, media is a powerful and dangerous source because the user or audience is vulnerable against the effect of a certain message. In this study, we ...
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The hypodermic needle theory is a prominent theory in social media that affects the understanding, attitudes, and behavior of individuals. In this viewpoint, media is a powerful and dangerous source because the user or audience is vulnerable against the effect of a certain message. In this study, we assess the relationship between this theory in the field of information technology with two person-centered approaches of constructionist or discourse analytic approach and the critical theory approach. Moreover, the libraries’ role in vaccinating users against this theory by increasing their knowledge is shown
