How much research shared on Facebook is hidden from public view? In this blog post, we highlight key findings from a new study investigating this question and what they mean for scholarly communications and altmetrics research.
With more than 2.2 billion active users—six times as many as Twitter—Facebook is by far the largest social media platform on the web today. Yet despite its popularity, studies investigating Facebook sharing have reported surprisingly low levels of user engagement with scholarly research on the platform. Are Facebook users really sharing fewer academic articles than Twitter users?
