Paradis, N., Knoll, M. A., Shah, C., Lambert, C., Delouya, G., Bahig, H., & Taussky, D. (2020). Twitter: a platform for dissemination and discussion of scientific papers in radiation oncology. American journal of clinical oncology, 43(6), 442-445. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wk/ajco/2020/00000043/00000006/art00010

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There is a correlation between Twitter mentions and how many academic citations were observed in radiation oncology articles, suggesting that in the field of oncology, Twitter is commonly used for the discussion and dissemination of scientific publications. Researchers also mentioned that further study is needed to determine the correlation between Twitter mentions and increasing academic citations of scientific articles 

Twitter: a platform for dissemination and discussion of scientific papers in radiation oncology

- Looked at 178 clinical manuscripts from top 10 impact factor oncology journals, top two radiation-oncology journals, and Brachytherapy all published between January and February of 2018
- Used Scopus and Google Scholar to collect the citations and Altmetric Bookmarklet to collect the number of times each article was tweeted 
- Used Chi-square test and Pearson coefficient to determine the correlation between academic citations and Twitter mentions

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