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Literature on citations of references on Twitter

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

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Updated 2026-07-19

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