Bot Activity Dataset (Detecting spam activity on academic articles using Altmetric data)

With the remarkable capability to reach the public instantly, social media has become integral in sharing scholarly articles to measure public response. This paper analyzes how Twitter bots interact with scholarly articles on the platform. Spamming by bots on social media can steer the conversation and present a false public interest in given research, affecting policies impacting the public's lives in the real world. In this paper, we determined whether bots are disseminating a given scholarly article based on analyzing the relationship between Twitter bots and several research factors. We developed and tested several supervised machine-learning classification models to tackle this problem. Through our analysis, we also identified that scholarly articles in health and human science are more prone to bot activity than other research areas.

With our study, we have published: * Machine learning models to identify possible bot activity. * Anonimyzed dataset with academic articles and bot activity score.