On the citation advantage of tweeted papers at the journal level. Issue 1 (24th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shu, Fei; Haustein, Stefanie
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 54:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 366
• Page End: 372
• Publication Date: 2017-10-24
• Subjects: Twitter -- citation analysis -- journal -- altmetrics -- scientific impact; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401040
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

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.