Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact

Gunther Eysenbach   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, MPH, FACMI

¹ University Health Network, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation & Techna Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada