Do you cite what you tweet? Investigating the relationship between tweeting and citing research articles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21256005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madelaine Hare (0000-0002-2123-9518, Dalhousie University), Geoff Krause (0000-0001-7943-5119, Dalhousie University), Keith MacKnight (0009-0001-0059-1926, Dalhousie University), Timothy D Bowman (0000-0003-0247-4771, Dominican University), Rodrigo Costas Comesana (0000-0002-7465-6462, Leiden University), Philippe Mongeon (0000-0003-1021-059X, Dalhousie University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 332-350 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quantitative Science Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2641-3337 • E-ISSN: 2641-3337 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/qss_a_00296 |
| OpenAlex | W4392122745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
The last decade of altmetrics research has demonstrated that altmetrics have a low to moderate correlation with citations, depending on the platform and the discipline, among other factors. Most past studies used academic works as their unit of analysis to determine whether the attention they received on Twitter was a good predictor of academic engagement. Our work revisits the relationship between tweets and citations where the tweet itself is the unit of analysis, and the question is to determine if, at the individual level, the act of tweeting an academic work can shed light on the likelihood of the act of citing that same work. We model this relationship by considering the research activity of the tweeter and its relationship to the tweeted work. The results show that tweeters are more likely to cite works affiliated with their same institution, works published in journals in which they also have published, and works in which they hold authorship. It finds that the older the academic age of a tweeter the less likely they are to cite what they tweet, though there is a positive relationship between citations and the number of works they have published and references they have accumulated over time
Academic institution · Altmetrics · Institution · Library science · Mathematics education · Positive correlation · Social media · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Medicine · Psychology · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
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Birds of a Feather
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |