Editorial comment: The authors tracked 3 years of bibliographic (Google Scholar and Scopus) and online
(Altmetric) citations for over 200 articles from several urological journals. Not
surprisingly in today's digital era, most articles (73%) had been mentioned on Twitter,
with a substantial proportion (42%) of these mentions occurring within the first week
of publication. As others have shown, there was a direct correlation between Twitter
mentions and bibliographic citation. A minority of articles (8.9%) were Tweeted by
their authors. Articles tweeted by their authors were associated with up to 2-fold
more bibliographic citations than those articles not shared on Twitter by authors.
Articles in pediatric urology had the fewest mean number of Twitter mentions (0.8
mentions per article).
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Publication history
Published online: May 10, 2021
Accepted:
April 30,
2021
Received:
April 30,
2021
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