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title: "Twitter research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 42 | 39 | 54 | 41 | 47 | 75 | 54 | 53 | 51 | 33 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 24 | 29 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 27 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 11 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 8 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 9 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 9 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 2 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Language Resources and Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/language-resources-and-evaluation.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 6 |
| 3 | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | 6 |
| 4 | [University College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-college-london.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Universidad de Granada](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-granada.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Universitat Politècnica de València | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Bologna](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-bologna.md) | 5 |
| 9 | University of Guelph | 5 |
| 10 | University of South Florida | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [social media](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-media.md) | 91 |
| 2 | [sentiment analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sentiment-analysis.md) | 76 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 47 |
| 4 | topic modeling | 24 |
| 5 | Facebook | 23 |
| 6 | Weibo | 23 |
| 7 | social media discourse | 23 |
| 8 | social media sentiment | 20 |
| 9 | fake news detection | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 602 | 6.6 | [Measuring social media influencer index- insights from facebook, Twitter and Instagram](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.03.012) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2019-03-26 | Anuja Arora, Shivam Bansal, Chandra Shekhar Kandpal et al. |
| 2 | 524 | 6.8 | [Customer engagement in social media: a framework and meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00731-5) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2020-05-27 | Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Wagner Júnior Ladeira, Diego Costa Pinto et al. |
| 3 | 493 | 5.5 | [Examining the impact of luxury brand's social media marketing on customer engagement: Using big data analytics and natural language processing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.04.042) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-05-07 | Liu Xia, Hyunju Shin, Alvin C. Burns |
| 4 | 475 | 4.2 | [Computer-based technology and student engagement: a critical review of the literature](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-017-0063-0) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2017-06-24 | Laura A. Schindler, Gary J Burkholder, Osama A. Morad et al. |
| 5 | 393 | 6.1 | [Citizens' trust in government as a function of good governance and government agency's provision of quality information on social media during COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101597) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2021-06-23 | Mahnaz Mansoor |

## 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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “Twitter”},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).