Open to influence: what counts as academic influence in scholarly networkedTwitterparticipation

Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the h-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated. Yet the influence scholars cultivate in open networked publics intersects with institutional academia in grant-required measures of ‘public impact’, in media...