- "Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic" 
- "Twitter as a powerful tool for communication between pain physicians during COVID-19 pandemic"
- "A scientometric overview of CORD-19"
- "Causal modeling of twitter activity during covid-19"
- "Using altmetrics for detecting impactful research in quasi-zero-day time-windows: the case of COVID-19"
- "COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts"

Literature on COVID-19 Research on Twitter

- "#Covid4Rheum: an analytical twitter study in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic"
- "Characterization of the #Radiology Twitter Conversation During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic"
- "Social Media and the New World of Scientific Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
- "International expert communities on Twitter become more isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic"
- "Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis"
- "Examining risk and crisis communications of government agencies and stakeholders during early-stages of COVID-19 on Twitter"
- "Mining Physicians’ Opinions on Social Media to Obtain Insights
Into COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis"
- "Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic"
- "A large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset for open scientific research - an international collaboration"
- "The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise"
- "Emergency Medicine Influencers’ Twitter Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-methods Analysis"
- "World leaders’ usage of Twitter in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a content analysis"

Literature on COVID-19 Researchers Collaboration and Communication on Twitter

- "An empirical study on Twitter’s use and crisis retweeting dynamics amid Covid-19"
- "An analysis of COVID-19 article dissemination by Twitter compared to citation rates"
- "Data mining and content analysis of the Chinese social media platform Weibo during the early COVID-19 outbreak: retrospective observational infoveillance study"
- "COVID‐19 pandemic and information diffusion analysis on Twitter"

Literature on Dissemination of COVID-19 Research on Twitter

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

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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

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

Citations of References on Twitter

COVID-19 Research on Twitter

Even prior to COVID-19, researchers have been using Twitter as a platform for knowledge sharing and dissemination of scientific literature and research collaboration and discussion. 

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

When addressing and attempting to minimize misinformation on Twitter, one can pair a tweet containing misinformation with another tweet about the same topic that only contains true information. This is a way to provide a soft nudge to Twitter users, informing them of potential false information in tweets they're reading. 

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