Elsevier
Economics Letters
,  volume 231 ,  pages 111270

Twitter and citations

Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2023-10-01
Elsevier
scimago Q2
wos Q2
SJR: 0.755
CiteScore: 3.4
Impact factor: 1.8
ISSN: 01651765, 18737374
Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Abstract
Social media, especially Twitter, plays an increasingly important role among researchers in showcasing and promoting their research. Does Twitter affect academic citations? Making use of Twitter activity about columns published on VoxEU, a renowned online platform for economists, we develop an instrumental variable strategy to show that Twitter activity about a research paper has a causal effect on the number of citations that this paper will receive. We find that the existence of at least one tweet, as opposed to none, increases citations by 16–25%. Doubling overall Twitter engagement boosts citations by up to 16%.
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CHAN H. B. et al. Twitter and citations // Economics Letters. 2023. Vol. 231. p. 111270.
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CHAN H. B., Önder A. U., Schweitzer S., Torgler B. Twitter and citations // Economics Letters. 2023. Vol. 231. p. 111270.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270
TI - Twitter and citations
T2 - Economics Letters
AU - CHAN, H. B.
AU - Önder, Ali Ulvi
AU - Schweitzer, Sascha
AU - Torgler, Benno
PY - 2023
DA - 2023/10/01
PB - Elsevier
SP - 111270
VL - 231
SN - 0165-1765
SN - 1873-7374
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@article{2023_CHAN,
author = {H. B. CHAN and Ali Ulvi Önder and Sascha Schweitzer and Benno Torgler},
title = {Twitter and citations},
journal = {Economics Letters},
year = {2023},
volume = {231},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {oct},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270},
pages = {111270},
doi = {10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270}
}