What Indians are Talking About LIS Research on X

An Altmetric Analysis Through Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Abstract

The present study aims to measure user sentiments while conversing about Library and Information Science (LIS) research on X; previously, Twitter (‘X’ and ‘Twitter’ are used interchangeably throughout the paper). The study also aimed to estimate the webometric and altmetric features of the LIS scholarly outputs regarding citations, altmetric scores, and Twitter metrics. Altmetric.com served as the primary source of data collection. Using an instant data scraper, the tweets and retweets were extracted and subjected to sentiment analysis in Orange text mining software. The study revealed 102,221 LIS outputs were indexed in the Altmetric Explorer, and 62995 outputs had social web attention. Twitter mentions were more prevalent for recent LIS publications. Geographically, 237 countries globally discussed LIS research on the X platform. The highest mentions came from English-speaking countries, such as the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK), with 87,969 and 44,356 mentions, respectively. As far as India was concerned, only 1925 LIS articles were mentioned. The sentiment analysis discovered that most of the Tweets were neutral. The study proved that early tweets can predict later citations for LIS research. The study’s findings give insights to the scholarly community on the scientific progress of the LIS domain by assessing public opinion on the X platform.