Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information

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Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Hadas Shema ,

* E-mail: dassysh@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Judit Bar-Ilan,

Affiliation Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Mike Thelwall

Affiliation Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
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Blogs chosen for the study were non-commercial, written by 1–2 individuals and had a minimum of twenty entries posted at the RB aggregator between January 1, 2010 and January 15, 2011.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0035869#article1.body1.sec2.p1

The data for this article are available here: http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilaj/PLoS1_data/Blogs_and_Twitter_accounts_sample.htm

No competing interests declared.

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