- 8,163 different scientific publications were collected on April 4, 2020. 3,478 were from a database regulated and updated by the WHO and 6,338 were extracted from Dimensions.ai
- Dimensions.ai API provided researchers with citation information as well – 6,582 publications were indexed by Dimensions.ai with a DOI or PubMed ID
- Out of all the publications and references extracted, researchers proceeded with 6,162 publications in their study

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic dataset of COVID-19-related publications

- Use VOSviewer for visualizing the dataset
- Created a post date score that assesses the month and day when a post was Tweeted and/or retweeted (more recent Tweets had higher scores)
- Used cosine similarity scores to examine how similar different posts and publications were (higher cosine similarity scores mean more similar texts)

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic data analysis and visualization


- Collected Twitter mention data through Altmetric.com from April 4 to 7, 2020
- Used Twitter API to collect more detailed information about Twitter mentions on April 7, 2020
- 4,195 publications had some sort of available Twitter mention data 
- Twitter mentions collected for the publications were then categorized into two groups – original tweet and retweet 

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic dataset of Twitter mentions of COVID-19-related publications


- Dataset of COVID-19-related publications
- Dataset of Twitter mentions of COVID-19-related publications
- Data analysis and visualization

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

- There is a parallel relationship between COVID-19-related publications and Twitter mentions where Twitter discussion increases with more research about COVID-19 being published
- Tweets from users of academic backgrounds are seen as more credible and hence receive more attention and more retweets 
- Research supports the claim that Twitter engagement and discussion of COVID-19-related research can be helpful in determining perceptions around the pandemic 

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic

Fang, Z., & Costas, R. (2020). Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05783. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05783 

- Tweeting patterns
- Evolution of Twitter discussions
- Limitations

Learn Before

Related

Learn After