t factor: A metric for measuring impact on Twitter
Lutz Bornmann · Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science · 2016
Based on the definition of the well-known h index we propose a t factor for measuring the impact of publications (and other entities) on Twitter. The new index combines tweet and retweet data in a balanced way, whereby retweets are seen as data reflecting the impact of initial tweets. The t factor is defined as follows: a unit (single publication, journal, researcher, research group etc.) has factor t if t of its Nt tweets have at least t retweets each and the other (Nt-t) tweets have ≤t retweets each.