International journal of public health
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Int J Public Health · May 2016
If I tweet will you cite? The effect of social media exposure of articles on downloads and citations.
We sought to investigate whether exposing scientific papers to social media (SM) has an effect on article downloads and citations. ⋯ SM exposure did not have a significant effect on traditional impact metrics, such as downloads and citations. However, other metrics may measure the added value that social media might offer to a scientific journal, such as wider dissemination.