Papers with authors that have Twitter accounts recieve more tweets.

University of California, Berkeley

- authors with Twitter published 2082 papers (average 27.4 per author)
- authors without Twitter published 2084 papers (averaging 16.8 per author)
- no statistical difference was found between these two groups for production of articles
- only 342 articles from the total were mentioned on Twitter, 121 by non-Twitter users and 221 by Twitter-users
- papers from Twitter users receive 33% more Tweets

To be or not to be on Twitter, and its relationship with the tweeting and citation of research papers results: tweets



Ortega, J. L. (2016). To be or not to be on Twitter, and its relationship with the tweeting and citation of research papers. Scientometrics, 109(2), 1353-1364. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2113-0

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