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<div class="csl-entry">Pacher, A. (2024). Scientific Journals’ Twitter Accounts and Impact Factor: A Causal Analysis Based on a Synthetic Control. In I. Frommholz, P. Mayr, G. Cabanac, S. Verberne, & J. Brennan (Eds.), <i>Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval, co-located with 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023)</i> (pp. 90–100). CEUR-WS.org. https://doi.org/10.34726/5446</div>
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/193826
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https://doi.org/10.34726/5446
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Does a journal’s actively curated Twitter account cause a rise in Journal Impact Factor (JIF)? The present paper analyses this causal assumption by looking at the JIF trajectories of various journals that set up a Twitter account in 2015. Having identified one suitable journal (namely, International Sociology), a counterfactual unit was generated with the the synthetic control method, a control unit that resembles the same journal but one that would not have registered a Twitter account in 2015. That control unit is synthetised via dozens of other journals that exhibit similar characteristics like the treated unit. The paper finds that the actual International Sociology enjoyed higher JIFs than its counterfactual control unit after 2015. The scale of this effect, however, is negligible and the finding is statistically insignificant. The main result of this paper, therefore, is that the null hypothesis claiming no-effect-of-Twitter-upon-JIF cannot be rejected.
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en
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.subject
causal inference
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dc.subject
impact factor
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dc.subject
twitter
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synthetic control
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dc.subject
altmetrics
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dc.title
Scientific Journals' Twitter Accounts and Impact Factor: A Causal Analysis Based on a Synthetic Control
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Inproceedings
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Konferenzbeitrag
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Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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10.34726/5446
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University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
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University of Toulouse, France
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Leiden University, Netherlands (the)
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University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
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90
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100
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2023 The authors
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Full-Paper Contribution
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1613-0073
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Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval, co-located with 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023)
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3617
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Information Systems Engineering
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E040-03-3 - Fachgruppe Szientometrie und Datenvisualisierung
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11
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CC BY 4.0
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CC BY 4.0
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0000-0002-5622-5132
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13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval co-located with 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023)
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02-04-2023
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02-04-2023
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Dublin
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IE
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Dublin City University
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Pacher, Andreas
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Multi Track
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Andere Sozialwissenschaften
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Informatik
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Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften
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