Social media buzz about studies predict common metrics of scientific impact within 3 days of publication User socialpsychonline, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 28 Sep 2015
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Researchers look at relationship between number of tweets about a study and the later citations it gets in journals. [Full Text | HTML] User jamabake, in the Republic of Science subreddit, 18 Feb 2012
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact User [deleted], in the Twitter subreddit, 28 Dec 2011