Mastodawn

Until @altmetric.com starts tracking research output on Mastodon like it does on Bluesky, you're probably not going to see a big migration of researchers here. Just sayin'.

Then again, Altmetric doesn't track LinkedIn either, and on some days it feels like the most functional space for academics out of the three. 🤔

#academicmastodon #academicchatter

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Miguel Correa 4d ago

@alelazic @altmetric.com LinkedIn does seem to be the main platform for academics now and where research papers get most engagement, which is very unfortunate because LinkedIn makes you lose sanity points.

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Oliver Brendel 1d ago

@m_correa_m @alelazic @altmetric.com must depend on your viewpoint : I have always refused to be on linkedin, and I have always considered it rsther as a job marked and not for paper publicity. In my research environment, I don't know anybody who puts their output on Linkedin. However, I get much publicity from Researchgate, with several reads per week (additional to citation counts).

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

@olibrendel @m_correa_m @altmetric.com I personally dislike ResearchGate and Academia and similar such places (although I have a profile on the former). Many in my field post and engage with research on LinkedIn; a very lively academic community of psychology researchers has formed there as well as on Bluesky (as opposed to Mastodon, unfortunately).