Kousha, K., & Thelwall, M. (2020). COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(3), 1068-1091. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10400

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- Out of the databases that the study investigated, Dimensions is the most comprehensive and contained the most relevant literature
- Altmetrics can be helpful for someone trying to differentiate between primary research and other document types 
- Twitter citation counts can be indicative of academic impact factors, at least for the first 3 weeks following publication

COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts

- Scholarly database indexing of COVID-19 publications
- Document and Altmetric comparison data sets
- Analysis

COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts methodology

- Coverage of scholarly databases
- Most cited papers
- A comparison between average scores for different sources
- Overlaps in citation counts between sources
- Early altmetrics and later citation counts

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