Correlation of Scholarly Networks and Social Networks

TL;DR

This paper investigates how social networks and media influence scholarly papers and examines information flow within these interconnected networks, revealing insights into their impact and dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel network model incorporating social and media dimensions to analyze scholarly paper influence and information dissemination.

Findings

Social networks significantly affect scholarly paper visibility.

Media presence correlates with increased citation rates.

The proposed model reveals key incidents in information flow.

Abstract

In previous studies, much attention from multidisciplinary fields has been devoted to understand the mechanism of underlying scholarly networks including bibliographic networks, citation networks and co-citation networks. Particularly focusing on networks constructed by means of either authors affinities or the mutual content. Missing a valuable dimension of network, which is an audience scholarly paper. We aim at this paper to assess the impact that social networks and media can have on scholarly papers. We also examine the process of information flow in such networks. We also mention some observa- tions of attractive incidents that our proposed network model revealed.