Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on T witter

Haustein, Stefanie, Bowman, Timothy D., Holmberg, Kim, Tsou, Andrew, Sugimoto, Cassidy R., Larivière, Vincent·2016·Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
DOI 10.1002/asi.23456

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