Data on first- and second-Order citations for sample of COVID-19 research

First- and second-order citations of a sample of COVID-19 research. First-order citation data includes news media mentions of research from Altmetric.com, Twitter mentions of research collected using the Twint Python library, and Facebook mention data collected through Crowdtangle. Second-order citation data (mentions of the news stories on social media) were collected using Twint (for Twitter mentions) and Crowdtangle (for Facebook mentions)