- Only publications with DOI or PubMed ID indexed by Dimensions.ai were studied
- Only looked at publication titles as indications of the content
- Only considered tweeted in English 

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- Tweeting patterns
- Evolution of Twitter discussions
- Limitations

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic discussion

Fang, Z., & Costas, R. (2020). Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05783. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05783 

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic discussion - limitations

- Among the research topics mentioned on Twitter, pressing topics received more attention
- There is a higher degree of engagement based on dissimilarity between publication titles and tweets, meaning that Twitter users generally did not merely summarize but added their own opinions
- Twitter users are likely to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on the real world in addition to scientific discoveries 
- Origins of COVID-19 was of utmost importance for Twitter users, but focus later shifted to include treatments, measures implemented by governments, and the economic and social impacts

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic discussion - evolution of Twitter discussions

- 68.1% of publications in the dataset were mentioned on Twitter at least once
- Twitter engagement and discussion regarding COVID-19-related research is much more active than usual
- Similar to the general temporal accumulation patterns of scholarly Twitter mentions, COVID-19-related publications also saw increased engagement on Twitter a few days after its publication
- Information posted by academically-related users had more engagement and response by other Twitter users 

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