Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis

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Highlights：

• Power law distribution in social media mentions (altmetrics) to scientific articles is explored.

• Empirical analysis confirms that altmetrics exhibit power law.

• Some other fits like log-normal are found to be plausible, whereas exponential distribution does not show a good fit.

• Implications of existence of Power law in altmetrics are discussed.

摘要

•Power law distribution in social media mentions (altmetrics) to scientific articles is explored.•Empirical analysis confirms that altmetrics exhibit power law.•Some other fits like log-normal are found to be plausible, whereas exponential distribution does not show a good fit.•Implications of existence of Power law in altmetrics are discussed.

论文关键词：Altmetrics,Exponential distribution,Log-normal distribution,Power Laws,Scientometrics,Social media mentions

论文评审过程：Received 7 April 2021, Revised 5 May 2022, Accepted 2 June 2022, Available online 17 June 2022, Version of Record 17 June 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101309