To cite tidyEmoji in publications, cite the package. If you used emoji_sentiment(), emoji_ambiguity() or emoji_risk(), also cite Kralj Novak et al. (2015); if you used emoji_emotion(), also cite Shoeb & de Melo (2020).

Yu Y (2026). tidyEmoji: Discover, Count, Categorise, Score, Translate and Relate Emoji in Text. R package version 0.4.0, https://pursuitofdatascience.github.io/tidyEmoji/.

Kralj Novak P, Smailovic J, Sluban B, Mozetic I (2015). “Sentiment of Emojis.” PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0144296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144296.

Shoeb A, de Melo G (2020). “EmoTag1200: Understanding the Association between Emojis and Emotions.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 8957–8967. https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.720/.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {{tidyEmoji}: Discover, Count, Categorise, Score, Translate
      and Relate Emoji in Text},
    author = {Youzhi Yu},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.4.0},
    url = {https://pursuitofdatascience.github.io/tidyEmoji/},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Sentiment of Emojis},
    author = {Petra {Kralj Novak} and Jasmina Smailovic and Borut
      Sluban and Igor Mozetic},
    journal = {PLoS ONE},
    year = {2015},
    volume = {10},
    number = {12},
    pages = {e0144296},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0144296},
  }

  @InProceedings{,
    title = {{EmoTag1200}: Understanding the Association between Emojis
      and Emotions},
    author = {Abu Awal Md Shoeb and Gerard {de Melo}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical
      Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    year = {2020},
    pages = {8957--8967},
    url = {https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.720/},
  }