Curated Resource ( ? )

Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky - ScienceDirect

Like science , twitter , engagement , bluesky , altmetric

Curated: 10/08/2025 from www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725000641

my notes ( ? )

This study examines:

"the shift in the scientific community from X to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics", following the Academic Twitter migration.
Is there "evidence of a community shift", and if so "examine the differences in values and indicators..."?
"provide valuable insights into whether Bluesky currently serves as an effective platform for the dissemination of scientific information and the generation of altmetric indicators".

"Bluesky mentions of scientific papers surged notably after the U.S. 2024 presidential election ... Nature stands out, with mentions rising sharply from 440 per week in early November to 1,412 per week by mid-November... [then] stabilizes at a consistently high level in the months that follow."
Bluesky overtook X in user engagement for some U.S.-based LIS [Library and Information Science] journals, signaling a platform shift in certain scholarly communities"
finds "a fragmented and politically influenced landscape of scholarly communication".
"user shift across platforms is a slow process which does not necessarily mean an abandonment of one of the platforms, favouring the other"
plenty of caveats, but "the altmetric hegemony of X may have come to an end... a clear alternative in Bluesky, which even matches user engagement in ways that would have seemed unthinkable until recently"

The above notes were curated from the full post www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725000641.