{"id":8666,"date":"2016-12-05T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2016-12-05T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:40:21","slug":"altmetric-spam-and-twitter-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2016\/12\/altmetric-spam-and-twitter-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Altmetric Spam and Twitter Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t get rid of Altmetric Spam Emails while I see this company\u00a0now also appearing on journal websites from Wiley and Taylor &amp; Francis.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8667 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen1-620x300.jpg\" alt=\"screen1\" width=\"620\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen1-620x300.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen1-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen1-1034x500.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only thing Altmetric is reporting here, is an activity\u00a0of a Twitter Bot. Maybe it is their own bot?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8668 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen2-620x414.jpg\" alt=\"screen2\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen2-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen2-748x500.jpg 748w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen2.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As our attention span is so limited, Wiley and Taylor &amp; Francis journals should avoid spamming the scientific community. Greetings to London whoever you are.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8672 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen3-620x475.jpg\" alt=\"screen3\" width=\"620\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen3-620x475.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen3-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen3-652x500.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen3.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 16.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t get rid of Altmetric Spam Emails while I see this company\u00a0now also appearing on journal websites from Wiley and Taylor &amp; Francis. The only thing Altmetric is reporting here, is an activity\u00a0of a Twitter Bot. Maybe it is their own bot? &nbsp; As our attention span is so limited, Wiley and Taylor &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2016\/12\/altmetric-spam-and-twitter-bots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Altmetric Spam and Twitter Bots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}