MSF scientific day 2013—how can we measure the impact of research? (blogging, twitter, FB, open access...

Médecins Sans Frontières

".... Virginia Barbour highlighted just how strikingly Facebook and Twitter have made a difference to sharing research. She said that 10% of PLOS papers published in the past decade have been tweeted, and very few have been shared/liked on Facebook. However, compare this with papers published in the past six months, where 100% of papers have been tweeted, and 81% have been shared on Facebook, and you can see what an impact social media now has on promoting and sharing research....