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Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 10,722)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
Published in
Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2011
DOI 10.2196/jmir.2012
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,043 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 32 3%
United Kingdom 24 2%
Spain 17 2%
Canada 13 1%
Germany 10 <1%
Australia 6 <1%
France 5 <1%
New Zealand 5 <1%
Netherlands 5 <1%
Other 49 5%
Unknown 877 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 164 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 138 13%
Student > Master 131 13%
Librarian 108 10%
Other 84 8%
Other 283 27%
Unknown 135 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 212 20%
Computer Science 192 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 155 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 74 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 40 4%
Other 187 18%
Unknown 183 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1226. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2024.
All research outputs
#14,029
of 34,404,538 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#4
of 10,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21
of 303,808 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#1
of 56 outputs
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