Descriptive analysis
In order to comprehend TE behaviour in the social web and to compare it with traditional TE scholarly dimension, we carried out two different analysis. First, we studied the presence of TE original articles in seven different research outputs (WoS, Altmetric Attention Score, Twitter, Patents, Facebook, Mendeley readers and News) as the percentage of documents with at least one mention or a citation from 2012 to 2018. Following Eysenbach, in the case of Twitter, we called a mention on it atwettation meaning the mention of a TE journal article URL, retweet of the same tweet or sending a modified tweet by other users (Eysenbach, 2011). Secondly, the Top 10 most cited TE original articles from 2012 to 2018 were ranked by their number of WoS citations and the Altmetric Attention score as a bibliometric measure of online attention (Trueger et al., 2015).