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Chhandak Bagchi

@cbagchi.bsky.social

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CS PhD student at UMass Amherst. ML and computational social science. people.umass.edu/cbagchi

Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social will present this work Tuesday at #ICWSM2025 at 5 PM in Room CSS 35.01.05 📄 Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Come say hi & let’s talk about the future of publishing 🚀

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Effects of Research Paper Promotion via ArXiv and X | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This raises questions about merit vs. social momentum: If social exposure skews citations, should we rethink how we measure impact? We argue for: — Better metrics — Awareness of these dynamics

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We find stronger social influence in CS than physics, supported by: 3. Greater variance in relative effect sizes for CS — prior works suggest that social influence leads to more randomness in rankings of items in digital platforms due to snowballing effects.

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We find stronger social influence in CS than physics, supported by: 2. Increasing treatment effects over time for CS (esp. tweeting & early ArXiv)

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Interestingly, we find evidence of stronger social influence in CS than physics, supported by: 1. Higher relative ATE in CS across all interventions

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We also looked at highly influential (HI) citations (via Semantic Scholar): They’re affected similarly too.

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

However, for physics, the effects were more modest: 📌 ArXiv-first → +4 citations 📌 Revisions → +4 📌 Tweeting → +7

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Key findings for CS papers (5-year citation gain): 📌 ArXiv-first → +21 citations 📌 ArXiv revisions → +18 📌 Tweeting → +44 Statistically significant effects across the board.

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We analyzed 500k+ papers in CS and physics to ask: — Does publishing on ArXiv before peer-reviewed publication boost citations? — Does subsequent revising on ArXiv matter? — Does tweeting your paper help?

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🚨 Excited to share our #ICWSM2025 paper 🚨 📄 "Effects of Research Paper Promotion via ArXiv and X" w/ @ericmalmi.bsky.social & @przemyslslaw.bsky.social We will present it at ICWSM this Tuesday at 5:15pm CET! 🧵👇

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hi, thanks for creating this! Can you add me here as well if it's not full?

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