Dr Steffen Lemke

Web Science

E-mail
T: +49 431 8814-648
Düsternbrooker Weg 120
24105 Kiel

Function

  • Research Assistant

Key activities

  • Altmetrics
  • Scholarly communication in the social web
  • Social Media and Web 2.0
  • Participation in the DFG project *metrics

Professional background

  • Since 2017
    Research Assistant at the ZBW
  • 2013-2016
    Master Studies in Business Informatics at the University of Kiel
  • 2010-2013
    Bachelor Studies in Business Informatics at the University of Kiel

Publications

Conference Papers (peer reviewed)

Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
The State of Bronze Open Access in Web of Science
In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2025), Bristol, United Kingdom, 3-5 September 2025, (Accepted) Bristol: STI-ENID, 2025,, doi:10.5281/zenodo.15753404 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
Effects of preprints on citations and altmetrics of Covid-19-related research
In: Proceedings of ISSI 2023 – the 19th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, v2 Leuven: ISSN Society, 2023, pp. 261-266, doi:10.5281/zenodo.8428682 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Dorsch, Isabelle / Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
Analysis of “Open Access Publishing Characteristics” for Covid-19 and cancer publications in Web of Science
In: Nachhaltige Information – Information für Nachhaltigkeit. Proceedings des 17. Internationalen Symposium für Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2023) Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 2023, pp. 387-392 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Dorsch, Isabelle / Peters, Isabella
Post-pandemic changes in the adoption of OA models – a case study on Covid-19 and cancer research
In: METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research (METSTI 2023) , London, UK, 27. October 2023 Geneva: Zenodo, 2023,, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10555358 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Witthake, Anne / Peters, Isabella
Altmetrics for German medical research: what leads to research articles achieving policy impact?
In: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022) Granada: University of Granada, 2022,, doi:10.5281/zenodo.6912582 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Bräuer, Paula / Peters, Isabella
Does the General Public Share Research on Twitter? A Case Study on the Online Conversation about the Search for a Nuclear Repository in Germany
In: Information between Data and Knowledge. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021), Regensburg, 8th—10th March 2021 : , 2021, pp. 94-114, doi:10.5283/epub.44940 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Sakmann, Julian / Brede, Max / Peters, Isabella
Exploring the Relationship between Qualities of Press Releases to Research Articles and the Articles’ Impact
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI 2021), 12–15 July 2021 Leuven: International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), 2021, pp. 639-644 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Hahn, Oliver / Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
Visual Elements Make Texts Appear Scientific? - An Empirical Analysis. Welche visuellen Elemente lassen Texte wissenschaftlich erscheinen? Eine empirische Untersuchung
In: MuC '20: Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch und Computer New York, NY: ACM, 2020, pp. 61-65, doi:10.1145/3404983.3410014 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen
The Effect of Press Releases on Promoted Articles' Citations and Altmetrics
In: Metrics 2020: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research (SIG/MET), 22-23 October Silver Spring, Maryland: Association for Information Science and Technology - SIG Metrics, 2020, Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
Coping with Altmetrics' Heterogeneity - A Survey on Social Media Platforms' Usage Purposes and Target Groups for Researchers
In: 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI 2019), September 2-5, 2019, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy : , 2019, pp. 2320-2325 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Mehrazar, Maryam / Kling, Christoph Carl / Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
Can We Count on Social Media Metrics? First Insights into the Active Scholarly Use of Social Media
In: WebSci '18, Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science Pages, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-30, 2018 New York: ACM, 2018, pp. 215-219, doi:10.1145/3201064.3201101 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mehrazar, Maryam / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
Are There Different Types of Online Research Impact?
In: Building & Sustaining an Ethical Future with Emerging Technology. Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 10–14 November 2018 Silver Spring, Maryland: Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2018, pp. 282-289 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mehrazar, Maryam / Peters, Isabella / Mazarakis, Athanasios
Evaluating altmetrics acts through their creators – how to advance?
In: altmetrics17. The dependencies of altmetrics. The 2017 Altmetrics Workshop, Toronto, 26 September 2017 Kiel und Hamburg: ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, 2017, Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios
Analyse wissenschaftlicher Konferenz-Tweets mittels Codebook und der Software Tweet Classifier
In: GeNeMe '17 - Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, 20. Tagung, 18.-20.10.2017, TU Dresden Dresden: TUDpress, 2017, pp. 95-104 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Mazarakis, Athanasios / Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
Tweets and Scientific Conferences: The Use Case of the Science 2.0 Conference – Revisited
In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Social Media, Caen, France Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd., 2016, pp. 214-222 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Contributions (peer reviewed)

Lemke, Steffen / Witthake, Anne / Peters, Isabella
Altmetrics zur Evaluation medizinischer Forschung in Deutschland
In: Biesenbender, Sophie, Hartstein, Judith (Eds.): Qualitätsmessung als Prisma, ISBN 978-3-658-43683-4, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2024, pp. 65-84, doi:10.1007/978-3-658-43683-4_4 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Broer, Irene / Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella / Zinke-Wehlmann, Christian
Editorial: The Science-Media Interface – On the relation between internal and external science communication
In: Broer, Irene et al. (Eds.): The Science-Media Interface. On the Relation Between Internal and External Science Communication, ISBN 9783110776546, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. VII-XVII, doi:10.1515/9783110776546-202 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
Path model of the interplay between the promotion and the received attention of research articles
In: Broer, Irene et al. (Eds.): The Science-Media Interface. On the Relation Between Internal and External Science Communication, ISBN 9783110776546, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 117-138, doi:10.1515/9783110776546-005 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Nuredini, Kaltrina / Lemke, Steffen / Peters, Isabella
Social Media and Altmetrics
In: Ball, Rafael (Eds.): Handbook Bibliometrics, ISBN 978-3-11-064661-0, Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2021, pp. 201-214, doi:10.1515/9783110646610-021 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Nuredini, Kaltrina / Peters, Isabella
PLOS Article-Level Metrics
In: Ball, Rafael (Eds.): Handbook Bibliometrics, ISBN 978-3-11-064661-0, Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2021, pp. 235-244, doi:10.1515/9783110646610-024 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Monographs (Editor)

Broer, Irene (Ed.) / Lemke, Steffen (Ed.) / Mazarakis, Athanasios (Ed.) / Peters, Isabella (Ed.) / Zinke-Wehlmann, Christian (Ed.)
The Science-Media Interface. On the Relation Between Internal and External Science Communication
Berlin: De Gruyter Saur,ISBN 9783110776546, 2023, Studies in Information Science, doi:10.1515/9783110776546 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Articles (peer reviewed)

Lemke, Steffen / Brede, Max / Rotgeri, Sophie / Peters, Isabella
Research articles promoted in embargo e-mails receive higher citations and altmetrics
In: Scientometrics - Berlin: Springer, ISSN 1588-2861, Vol. 127 (2022), pp. 75–97, doi:10.1007/s11192-021-04217-1 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
Conjoint analysis of researchers' hidden preferences for bibliometrics, altmetrics, and usage metrics
In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology - Hoboken: Wiley, ISSN 2330-1643, Vol. 72 (2021), No. 6, pp. 777-792, doi:10.1002/asi.24445 Link to fulltext (PDF)
Lemke, Steffen / Mehrazar, Maryam / Mazarakis, Athanasios / Peters, Isabella
“When You Use Social Media You Are Not Working”: Barriers for the Use of Metrics in Social Sciences
In: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics - Lausanne: Frontiers, ISSN 2504-0537, Vol. 3 (2019), No. [Article No.] 39, pp. 1-18, doi:10.3389/frma.2018.00039 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Monographs (Author)

Lemke, Steffen
An Assessment of Impact Metrics’ Potential as Research Indicators Based on Their Perception, Usage, and Dependencies from External Science Communication
Kiel: Christian-Albrechts-Universität,2022 Link to fulltext (PDF)

Further publications

  • Mazarakis, A., Lemke, S., & Peters, I. (2016).
    Tweets and Scientific Conferences: The Use Case of the Science 2.0 Conference - Revisited    .
    In Bernadas, C., & Minchella, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Social Media (ECSM 2016) (p. 214–222). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
  • Lemke, S., Mazarakis, A., & Peters, I. (2016).
    Characteristics of Twitter Usage at Scientific Conferences    .
    In Stützer, C., Hellwig, O., Tabino, O., Thielsch, M., & Wachenfeld-Schell, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th General Online Research Conference (GOR 2016) (p. 34–35). Dresden: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (DGOF).
  • Lemke, S., Mazarakis, A., & Peters, I. (2015).
    Understanding Scientific Conference Tweets.
    In Kaczmirek, L., Hellwig, O., Tabino, O, Thielsch, M., & Wachenfeld, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th General Online Research Conference (GOR 2015) (p. 52–53). Cologne: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (DGOF).