Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

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Maybe a little, but don’t count on it  

Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis.

The study analysed the citation patterns of 112 papers in the field of thoracic surgery published between 2017 and 2018 in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.