1. On the citation advantage of tweeted papers at the journal level.
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Shu, Fei and Haustein, Stefanie
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CITATION analysis ,WEBSITES ,ALTMETRICS ,INFORMATION science - Abstract
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of diffusing scientific articles on Twitter on their citation impact. For a set of 1.3 million papers covered by the Web of Science and published in 2012, normalized citation rates are compared between tweeted and non-tweeted articles published in the same journal. The results indicate that tweeted papers, published in the same year and in the same journal received around 30% higher citation rates than papers which were not diffused on Twitter. This type of citation advantage appeared across disciplines and countries of authors, but varied in extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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