Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky
2024/12/07 by Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao Arroyo‐Machado, Nicolás Robinson‐García +6 · 12 voices · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2025.101700
Abstract
This study examines the shift in the scientific community from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics (altmetrics). We analysed 14,497 publications from multidisciplinary and Library and Information Science (LIS) journals between January 2024 and March 2025. The results reveal a notable increase in Bluesky activity for multidisciplinary journals in November 2024, likely influenced by political and platform changes, with mentions multiplying for journals like Nature and Science. In LIS, the adoption of Bluesky is different and shows marked variation between European and United States journals. Although Bluesky remains a minority platform compared to X over the whole period, when focusing on user engagement after the United States elections, we see a much more even distribution between the two platforms. In two LIS journals, Bluesky even surpasses X, while in most others, the difference in user engagement was no longer as pronounced, marking a significant change from previous patterns in altmetrics.
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- “While X currently dominates altmetric mentions, the observed growth on Bluesky suggests a potential shift in the future, underscoring its emerging role in academic dissemination and the challenges of [bsky, 144 points, 1 comments]
- New study: "While #X currently dominates #altmetric mentions, the observed growth on #Bluesky suggests a potential shift in the future." arxiv.org/abs/2412.05624 #Altmetrics #Impact #ScholComm [bsky, 22 points, 0 comments]
- Library & Info Science shows different trends though, with journals like JASIST getting more Bluesky engagement (67% of mentions!). Early signs of a platform shift, or just testing new waters? 🤔 #Sci [bsky, 8 points, 0 comments]
- Just out in JOI 🔓 Are there stars in Bluesky? (w/ @nrobinsongarcia.bsky.social & @torressalinas.bsky.social), first to quantify 📊 how scholarly mentions are shifting from Twitter/X to Bluesky after [bsky, 6 points, 0 comments]
- Maybe there is a mental hurdle to becoming more "productive" here.🤔 [At least that's true for me] There were months on X I spread papers every day. Like transition from vacation to business ^^ Artic [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Especially interesting when you have what, quadruple the following on the other side? Fascinating. I saw a preprint using Altmetric to compare activity on big name science journals overall, but susp [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- This is the latest research article on the topic that I found. The results seem to differ, although BlueSkye appears to be on the rise. arxiv.org/abs/2412.056... [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- Update. New study: "While #X currently dominates #altmetric mentions, the observed growth on #Bluesky suggests a potential shift in the future." https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05624 #Altmetrics #Impact # [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- "Bluesky shows signs in LIS journals, indicating potential differences adoption in platform engagement across fields." arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05624 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado et al., Are There Stars In Bluesky? A Comparative Exploratory Analysis of Altmetric Mentions Between X and Bluesky, arXiv preprint (2024), arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05624 Quick take [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- 学術論文への言及量は、BlueskyがX（旧Twitter）に匹敵してきているというデータ。 Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Fun to see my experiential recollection of the November 2024 turn to Bluesky quantified ————— doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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