- Publications in which Chinese authors contributed the most generally did not receive as much attention on Twitter compared to papers that were written by Chinese and non-Chinese scholars 
- The citation rate of tweeted publications was approximately 50% higher than non-tweeted papers in each of the three groups 
- Geometric means indicated that publications that were tweeted received 15% more citations than papers that were not tweeted

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- Pairwise comparison of relative citation rate between publications that were tweeted vs. not tweeted based on the journal and publication year 
- Initial distribution was right-skewed, so 4 thresholds were applied – T0 at least 1; T1 at least 5; T2 at least 10; T3 at least 20 tweeted and 20 non-tweeted publications

Can Twitter increase the visibility of Chinese publications? within-journal comparison

Shu, F., Lou, W., & Haustein, S. (2018). Can Twitter increase the visibility of Chinese publications?. Scientometrics, 116(1), 505-519. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-018-2732-8 

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