A collection of academic studies examining how Twitter activity (tweets and mentions) relates to the citation rates and scholarly impact of the referenced research papers. Studies include:
- The presence of academic journals on Twitter and its relationship with dissemination (tweets) and research impact (citations)
- Twitter Mentions and Academic Citations in the Urologic Literature
- How and why scholars cite on Twitter
- Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and Measured?
- Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
- To be or not to be on Twitter, and its relationship with the tweeting and citation of research papers
- Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research
- Astrophysicists on Twitter: An in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior
- Introducing the Twitter impact factor: An objective measure of urology's academic impact on Twitter
- Twitter: a platform for dissemination and discussion of scientific papers in radiation oncology
- Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services
- Twitter promotion predicts citation rates of cardiovascular articles: a preliminary analysis from the ESC Journals Randomized Study
- Can Twitter increase the visibility of Chinese publications?
- Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial
- COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts
- Uncovering the scholarly use of Twitter in the academia

Literature on citations of references on Twitter

Articles referenced on Twitter may affect the number of citations on the articles references. 

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Twitter is a social media platform that has also become a major source of information for many people, partly due the popularity among many politicians and celebrities.  

Knowledge sharing on Twitter

Twitter has been a main source of misinformation, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. False information regarding ways to prevent the spread of the virus, the origins of the virus, side effects of the vaccine, and etc can all be found on Twitter. 

COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter

Citations of References on Twitter

Twitter has been used for academic discussions and research related to COVID-19. 

COVID-19 Research on Twitter

Since the initial developmental stages of the COVID-19 vaccines, Twitter has been a platform where people discussed and shared their thoughts and information about the vaccines. Some examples include public announcements such as the content of the vaccine and regional distributions and user expressing their perceptions and sentiments towards the vaccine. 

COVID-19 Vaccine Discussions on Twitter

Soft moderation of misinformation on Twitter involves interventions that provide contextual information or warnings rather than outright removing content. This includes strategies such as pairing a tweet containing misinformation with a corrective tweet containing factual information, or applying warning labels. These approaches act as soft nudges to inform users about potential falsehoods in the tweets they read.

Soft Moderation of Misinformation on Twitter

Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers used Twitter as a platform for knowledge sharing, the dissemination of scientific literature, research collaboration, and academic discussion.

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