Is there Lingua Franca in informal scientific communication? Evidence from language distribution of scientific tweets
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Highlights：
• Social media provides a novel perspective for studying global informal scientific communication.
• English has become lingua franca in informal scientific communication as measured by language distribution of scientific tweets.
• Comprehensive comparison between language distribution of scientific tweets and scientific publications.
• Disciplinary language distribution demonstrates different areas that certain countries pay more attention to.
• Most authors have no special language preference in tweeting scientific product.
摘要
•Social media provides a novel perspective for studying global informal scientific communication.•English has become lingua franca in informal scientific communication as measured by language distribution of scientific tweets.•Comprehensive comparison between language distribution of scientific tweets and scientific publications.•Disciplinary language distribution demonstrates different areas that certain countries pay more attention to.•Most authors have no special language preference in tweeting scientific product.
论文关键词：Altmetrics,Scientific tweets,Language distribution,Informal scientific communication,Twitter
论文评审过程：Received 18 December 2017, Revised 27 February 2018, Accepted 7 June 2018, Available online 19 June 2018, Version of Record 19 June 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.06.003
