Using Twitter/X to promote research findings found to have little impact on number of citations

Using Twitter/X to promote research findings found to have little impact on number of citations A team of researchers with varied backgrounds has found that using X (formerly Twitter) as a means to increase citations on research papers has little impact. In their study, published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group compared the number of citations for papers that had been promoted on X and those that had not. Anecdotal evidence suggests that research papers gain increased respect …