How to populate org table with org citations generated by R scr

Question

I am trying to generate a table of org citations with the following R source block (emacs 28.1, org 9.5.3)

#+name: test-citation-table
#+BEGIN_SRC R :results replace :colnames yes
  data.frame(Reference = paste0("[cite:@", c("ref2022", "", "example1985"), "]")
           , Url = "example.com")
#+END_SRC

For some reason org citations does not show and I get this

#+RESULTS: test-citation-table
|          | example.com |
| [cite:@] | example.com |
|          | example.com |

Whereas I would expect this

#+RESULTS: test-citation-table
| [cite:@ref2022]     | example.com |
| [cite:@]            | example.com |
| [cite:@example1985] | example.com |

Strangely, org-ref type of links works as expected:

#+name: test-citation-table
#+BEGIN_SRC R :results replace :colnames yes
  data.frame(Reference = paste0("cite:@", c("ref2022", "", "example1985"))
           , Url = "example.com")
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS: test-citation-table
| Reference         | Url         |
|-------------------+-------------|
| cite:@ref2022     | example.com |
| cite:@            | example.com |
| cite:@example1985 | example.com |

Does anyone else have such an issue? I do not know if this a bug or expected behavior? If so maybe someone knows a workaround?