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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- Chinese publications that were tweeted gained 15% more citations
- Citation advantage due to Twitter mentions varied by discipline
- Results imply a correlation between Twitter mentions and citations of Chinese publications
- Cannot infer causation due to the same collection period used for both tweets and citations

Can Twitter increase the visibility of Chinese publications?

- Data collection
- Within-journal comparison
- Discipline comparison
- Source country comparison

Can Twitter increase the visibility of Chinese publications? methodology

- Source countries were not located for 1/3 of the tweets
- Impact of the order at which authors are listed on visibility was not examined
- Do more research on the content of Chinese publications and their citation count

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