Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fast-moving conversation that participants believe reflects scholarly impact. Twitter citation metrics could augment traditional citation analysis, supporting a "scientometrics 2.0.".
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Priem, J., & Costello, K. L. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. In Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting (Vol. 47). https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504701201
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