Academic use of social media in China:A Review of the Literature

Altmetric indicators are largely affected by countries or regions,especially for non-English speaking countries such as China,Japan,Russia,etc.Although China is the largest county in terms of the number of social media users,we still know little on the academic use of local social media tools and local altmetric indicators in China.The purpose of this paper is to present the landscape of local altmetrics in China,including the local social media platform for academic use,local altmetric data sources and indicators,as well as the local altmetric studies conducted by Chinese scholars.