Using social bookmarks and tags as alternative indicators of journal content description
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https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v17i11.4110Keywords:
altmetrics, social bookmarking, social tagging, journal descriptionAbstract
Qualitative journal evaluation cumulates content descriptions of single articles. Articles are either represented by author–generated keywords, professionally indexed subject headings, automatically extracted terms or, as recently introduced, by reader–generated tags as used in social bookmarking systems. The study presented here shows that different types of keywords each reflect a different perspective on documents and that tags can be used in journal evaluation to represent a reader–specific view. After providing a broad theoretical background and literature review, methods for extensive automatic term cleaning and calculation of term overlaps are introduced. The efficiency of tags and other metadata for journal content description is illustrated for one particular journal.Downloads
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- Schematic representation of the five dimensions of journal evaluation (Haustein, 2012)
- Three views of a document during indexing (Peters and Stock, 2009)
- Schematic representation of data acquisition
- Tag application frequency per document for 724 documents
- Frequency distribution of tags and tag applications per journal
- Tag frequency distribution of 1,596 tags assigned to 724 documents
- 31 most frequently applied tags
- Tag applications per user for 724 documents
- 22 most frequently tagging users
- Term cloud of title terms of 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Term cloud of abstract terms of 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Term cloud of author keywords assigned to 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Term cloud of KeyWords Plus assigned to 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Term cloud of Inspec subject headings assigned to 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Tag cloud for 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
- Number of tag applications and citations per document for 94 documents published in J Stat Mech
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2012-11-03
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Haustein, S., & Peters, I. (2012). Using social bookmarks and tags as alternative indicators of journal content description. First Monday, 17(11). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v17i11.4110
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