Investigating the quality of interactions and public engagement around scientific papers on Twitter

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Highlights：

• Individual citizens and researchers play an important rol in the scientific communication process on Twitter.

• A general finding of this study is that bots and clone accounts play a major role in the landscape of science communication on Twitter.

• Twitter users very rarely add extra thoughts, ideas or questions to the original tweets.

摘要

•Individual citizens and researchers play an important rol in the scientific communication process on Twitter.•A general finding of this study is that bots and clone accounts play a major role in the landscape of science communication on Twitter.•Twitter users very rarely add extra thoughts, ideas or questions to the original tweets.

论文关键词：Science communication,Twitter,Quality of interactions,Public engagement

论文评审过程：Received 24 July 2017, Revised 3 August 2018, Accepted 3 August 2018, Available online 14 August 2018, Version of Record 14 August 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.002