Tweets to Citations: Unveiling the Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research Visibility

arXiv:2401.13782v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: As the number of accepted papers at AI and ML conferences reaches into the thousands, it has become unclear how researchers access and read research publications. In this paper, we investigate the role of social media influencers in enhancing the visibility of machine learning research, particularly the citation counts of papers they share. We have compiled a comprehensive dataset of over 8,000 papers, spanning tweets from December 2018 to October 2023, alongside controls precisely matched …

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