Abstract
The widespread dissemination and accessibility of scholarly articles on the internet has led to the advent of “altmetrics” which quantify the online reach of a publication. This is in comparison to more traditional bibliometrics which use citation number to generate an estimation of impact. Previous studies into nonmedical literature have found that “highly-Tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-Tweeted articles.” 1 Eysenbach G. Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact. J Med Internet Res. 2011; 13: e123 Crossref PubMed Scopus (716) Google Scholar
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