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Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial Results

  • tweeted articles had a significant increase in Altmetric scores and Altmetric score percentiles compared to controls and compared to paired articles in the control group
  • Altmetric score percentile is strongly correlated with number of citations
  • tweeting results in significant increase in citations
  • citations can be predicted by Twitter exposure and social media attention
  • social media activity can have scholarly impact
  • no difference in Altmetric scores and citation numbers between different research categories

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Updated 2021-02-25

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Computing Sciences