Twitter and citations
- 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%.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Schweitzer, Sascha |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-45147 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111270 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1765 |
| Erschienen in: | Economics letters |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2023 |
| Tag: | citations; economists; productivity; social media; twitter |
| Volume: | 231 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 4 |
| Article Number: | 111270 |
| PPN: | Im Katalog der Hochschule Reutlingen ansehen |
| DDC classes: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Open access?: | Ja |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
