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- Frequency distributions show very similar results for COVID-19 publications and Twitter mentions of these COVID-19 publications 
- In general, publications tended to have the highest Twitter attention and mentions the first couple of days after it is published because Twitter mentions do not have long time spans and are rarely delayed 
- However, there are instances where some publications, even before its official publication date is recorded, have already gained significant Twitter attention due to online versions

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic results - temporal distribution of Twitter mentions

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 

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