Gregory's ServerThe good news is, if you thought Twitter's descent into Musk-filled madness might be detrimental to your efforts to get other scientists to cite your work, fear not. In this regard, Twitter was not actually that useful.
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It's worth recalling that, as NPR discovered a few months ago, Twitter turned out to be pretty useless for journalists as well. And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that the same holds for all the businesses and advertisers who left. So, really, there's no reason for anyone to keep patronizing that fascist sh**hole!  |
There have been several studies showing that the highly-tweeted papers are also highly-cited.
I think that's right. But not because tweeting causes citations.
In light of our results, it seems more likely that both social media communicators, and publishing scientists, recognize impactful work when they see it. Good science just gets talked about more, regardless of the medium.
That scientific research impact can't easily be gamed by social media I find quite reassuring.