TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Chan, Ho Fai
A1  - Önder, Ali Sina
A1  - Schweitzer, Sascha
A1  - Torgler, Benno
T1  - Twitter and citations
JF  - Economics letters
N2  - 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%.
KW  - productivity
KW  - social media
KW  - twitter
KW  - citations
KW  - economists
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-45147
SN  - 0165-1765
SS  - 0165-1765
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270
VL  - 231
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
S1  - 4
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -