Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2023, Posting Scholarly Articles to Twitter & LinkedIn
The overall mean number of annual posts is 2.73, with a median of 0.00, indicating that most respondents did not post anything on LinkedIn in the past year. The minimum number of posts is 0.00 and the maximum is 300.50, indicating a very skewed distribution with some major outliers. As with scholarly use of Twitter, use is heavily concentrated in a small but determined number of regular users.
Traditional social media still play a significant role in scholarly communications, particularly for scholars interested in reaching an audience outside of their immediate scholarly community. This looks at the propensity of scholars to post to LinkedIn & Twitter and is based on data from a survey of 731 higher education faculty randomly chosen from nearly 500 colleges and universities in the USA. Data is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender, personal income level, academic discipline, age and other variables, as well as institutional indicators such as college or university type or Carnegie class, enrollment size, public or private status and others.
- Table 1.1.1 How many articles or links to your articles have you posted on the following sources in the past year? Twitter
- Table 1.1.2 How many articles or links to your articles have you posted on the following sources in the past year? Twitter Broken out by faculty title
- Table 1.1.3 How many articles or links to your articles have you posted on the following sources in the past year? Twitter Broken out by enrollment
- Table 1.1.4 How many articles or links to your articles have you posted on the following sources in the past year? Twitter Broken out by Carnegie Class or type of college
- Table 1.1.5 How many articles or links to your articles have you posted on the following sources in the past year? Twitter Broken out by public or private college
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