The role of online videos in research communication: A content analysis of YouTube videos cited in academic publications
The role of online videos in research communication: A content analysis of YouTube videos cited in academic publications
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10.1002/asi.22717
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2012-09-01
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Abdoli, Mahshid
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Kousha, Kayvan;Thelwall, Mike;Abdoli, Mahshid
虽然有证据表明，学术界越来越多地使用在线视频进行非正式的学术交流和教学，但它们在出版的学术研究中的使用程度尚不清楚。本文探讨了YouTube视频在学术出版物中被引用的程度，以及这种做法是否存在重大的学科差异。为了进行调查，我们从Scopus索引的学术出版物中提取了YouTube视频的URL引用。共有1，808篇Scopus出版物引用了至少一个YouTube视频，从2006年到2011年，学术出版物中引用在线视频的数量稳步上升，其中YouTube引用在艺术和人文科学（0.3%）和社会科学（0.2%）中最常见。对研究文章引用的551个YouTube视频的内容分析表明，在科学（78%）和医学和健康科学（77%）方面，超过四分之三的引用视频具有直接的科学（例如，实验室实验）或科学相关内容（例如，在艺术和人文领域，约80%的YouTube视频涉及艺术、文化或历史主题，在社会科学领域，约63%的视频涉及新闻、政治、广告和纪录片。这表明了不同学科领域的学科差异和各种各样的创新研究交流用途。
Although there is some evidence that online videos are increasingly used by academics for informal scholarly communication and teaching, the extent to which they are used in published academic research is unknown. This article explores the extent to which YouTube videos are cited in academic publications and whether there are significant broad disciplinary differences in this practice. To investigate, we extracted the URL citations to YouTube videos from academic publications indexed by Scopus. A total of 1,808 Scopus publications cited at least one YouTube video, and there was a steady upward growth in citing online videos within scholarly publications from 2006 to 2011, with YouTube citations being most common within arts and humanities (0.3%) and the social sciences (0.2%). A content analysis of 551 YouTube videos cited by research articles indicated that in science (78%) and in medicine and health sciences (77%), over three fourths of the cited videos had either direct scientific (e.g., laboratory experiments) or scientific-related contents (e.g., academic lectures or education) whereas in the arts and humanities, about 80% of the YouTube videos had art, culture, or history themes, and in the social sciences, about 63% of the videos were related to news, politics, advertisements, and documentaries. This shows both the disciplinary differences and the wide variety of innovative research communication uses found for videos within the different subject areas.