Post #726553
2026-02-09 08:43 UTC
‘AltMetric’-style services, which track citations to academic papers outside of academic literature—so in the news, social media, etc.—have been quick to incorporate #BlueSky posts, but I’ve yet to see one that includes the #fediverse
I can see that (real) decentralisation makes it harder to find citations to papers in the Fediverse, but it ought to be possible.
Is there anybody out there working on some sort of FediMetric service?
#AcademicPublishing #Science #Publishing
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@CadeJohnson@toot.cat 2026-02-09 10:03
@joeroe In a sense, tracking and citing social discourse is the antithesis of fediverse development. I trust my local instance owner's moderation efforts and personal information security, but I am not interested in any overarching repository of my utterances (nor even my citations of papers) being stored for posterity. I think a lot of people would feel the same.