Papers on “Twitter”
Research on “Twitter” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “Twitter” appeared in 1,230 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (489), information systems (203) and management (110).
- 107 of them were published in 2025, against 112 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (8), Chinese University of Hong Kong (6) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (32), Information Processing & Management (30) and Knowledge-Based Systems (21).
- The most-cited of them is “Measuring social media influencer index- insights from facebook, Twitter and Instagram” (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2019), with 602 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 42 | 39 | 54 | 41 | 47 | 75 | 54 | 53 | 51 | 33 |
| Information Systems | 24 | 29 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 27 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 11 |
| Management | 8 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 4 |
| Marketing | 9 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 9 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
| Economics | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 2 |
| Finance | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Accounting | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 112 | 114 | 117 | 107 | 156 | 174 | 134 | 139 | 107 | 70 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 32 |
| 2 | Information Processing & Management | 30 |
| 3 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 21 |
| 4 | Applied Intelligence | 15 |
| 5 | Neural Computing and Applications | 15 |
| 6 | Language Resources and Evaluation | 15 |
| 7 | Knowledge and Information Systems | 14 |
| 8 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 13 |
| 9 | Journal Of Big Data | 13 |
| 10 | Scientometrics | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 8 |
| 2 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 6 |
| 3 | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | 6 |
| 4 | University College London | 6 |
| 5 | Sichuan University | 5 |
| 6 | Universidad de Granada | 5 |
| 7 | Universitat Politècnica de València | 5 |
| 8 | University of Bologna | 5 |
| 9 | University of Guelph | 5 |
| 10 | University of South Florida | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 104 |
| 2 | China | 81 |
| 3 | India | 47 |
| 4 | Spain | 43 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 40 |
| 6 | Germany | 34 |
| 7 | Italy | 30 |
| 8 | Australia | 22 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | social media | 91 |
| 2 | sentiment analysis | 76 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 47 |
| 4 | topic modeling | 24 |
| 5 | 23 | |
| 6 | 23 | |
| 7 | social media discourse | 23 |
| 8 | social media sentiment | 20 |
| 9 | fake news detection | 19 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “Twitter”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter
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