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Kesiena O, Onyeaka HK, Fugar S, Okoh AK, Volgman AS. The top 100 Twitter influencers in cardiology. AIMS Public Health 2021; 8:743-753. [PMID: 34786432 PMCID: PMC8568598 DOI: 10.3934/publichealth.2021058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Importance Twitter represents a growing aspect of the social media experience and is a widely used tool for public education in the 21st century. In the last few years, there has been concern about the dissemination of false health information on social media. It is therefore important that we assess the influencers of this health information in the field of cardiology. Objective We sought to identify the top 100 Twitter influencers within cardiology, characterize them, and examine the relationship between their social media activity and academic influence. Design Twitter topic scores for the topic search “cardiology” were queried on May 01, 2020 using the Right Relevance application programming interface (API). Based on their scores, the top 100 influencers were identified. Among the cardiologists, their academic h-indices were acquired from Scopus and these scores were compared to the Twitter topic scores. Result We found out that 88/100 (88%) of the top 100 social media influencers on Twitter were cardiologists. Of these, 63/88 (72%) were males and they practiced mostly in the United States with 50/87 (57%) practicing primarily in an academic hospital. There was a moderately positive correlation between the h-index and the Twitter topic score, r = +0.32 (p-value 0.002). Conclusion Our study highlights that the top ranked cardiology social media influencers on Twitter are board-certified male cardiologists practicing in academic settings in the US. The most influential on Twitter have a moderate influence in academia. Further research should evaluate the relationship between other academic indices and social media influence.
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- Onoriode Kesiena
- Department of Internal Medicine, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Mclean, Boston, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Unit, RWJ Barnabas Health, NBIMC, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
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Ziemba YC, Razzano D, Allen TC, Booth AL, Anderson SR, Champeaux A, Feldman MD, Fitzhugh V, Gittens S, Grider M, Gupta M, Hanos C, Kelly K, Kothari T, Laudadio J, Lin AY, Mirza KM, Montone KT, Prieto VG, Remick DG, Riddle ND, Schubert M, Suskie K, Zafar N, Robboy SJ, Markwood PS. Social Media Engagement at Academic Conferences: Report of the Association of Pathology Chairs 2018 and 2019 Annual Meeting Social Media Committee. Acad Pathol 2020; 7:2374289520934019. [PMID: 32733989 PMCID: PMC7370333 DOI: 10.1177/2374289520934019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The use of social media at academic conferences is expanding, and platforms such as Twitter are used to share meeting content with the world. Pathology conferences are no exception, and recently, pathology organizations have promoted social media as a way to enhance meeting exposure. A social media committee was formed ad hoc to implement strategies to enhance social media involvement and coverage at the 2018 and 2019 annual meetings of the Association of Pathology Chairs. This organized approach resulted in an 11-fold increase in social media engagement compared to the year prior to committee formation (2017). In this article, the social media committee reviews the strategies that were employed and the resultant outcome data. In addition, we categorize tweets by topic to identify the topics of greatest interest to meeting participants, and we discuss the differences between Twitter and other social media platforms. Lastly, we review the existing literature on this topic from 23 medical specialties and health care fields.
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- Yonah C Ziemba
- Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Bex RT, Lundgren L, Crippen KJ. Scientific Twitter: The flow of paleontological communication across a topic network. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0219688. [PMID: 31361749 PMCID: PMC6667199 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The field of paleontology, which is based principally on observations of the natural world, includes an active community that is engaged across multiple social media platforms, consisting of museums, academic researchers, amateur fossil collectors, paleontological artists, and commercial fossil dealers. As such, it represents an ideal environment for examining the people, interactions, and flow of scientific information. Using interactions involving the four most popular Twitter hashtags for paleontology, this embedded mixed methods study defined the members of this social world and investigated how they influenced and controlled the flow of information, as well as how their expression of scientific practice was related to their identity. Results provide further evidence for the diversity of people and practice involved in this domain of science and indicate that the magnitude and breadth of the public's impact may be larger than previously projected. Certain types of messages were shown to be effective for different segments of the community, but news posts, essentially media outlet stories, were ineffective for generating any form of engagement. This study adds to our understanding of the important scientific contribution being made by members of the public as they interact with professional scientists and educators as peers in an open social media platform that supports a diverse and active community.
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- Richard T. Bex
- School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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Salzmann-Erikson M. Mental health nurses' use of Twitter for professional purposes during conference participation using #acmhn2016. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2018; 27:804-813. [PMID: 28664648 DOI: 10.1111/inm.12367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Scholars across different disciplines use Twitter to promote research and to communicate with society. Most conferences nowadays have their unique hashtag in which participants can communicate in real time. Previous research has reported on conference participants' use of Twitter, but no such studies are available in the field of mental health nursing. Thus, the explicit aim of the present study was to examine conference participants' use of Twitter during the 42nd International Mental Health Nursing Conference. Freely-accessible data were mined via a social media platform under the hashtag #acmhn2016. The total dataset consisted of 1973 tweets, and was analysed with descriptive statistics and a directed content analysis. The results demonstrated that 37% of the tweets were original posts, and 63% were engagements. In total, 184 individual accounts engaged in Twitter during the conference, and 16.4 tweets were posted hourly. Most tweets were categorized as conference/session-related content, but Twitter was also used for socializing with other participants. The most frequently-used words mirror a clear connection to a person-centred approach, and deviate from the biomedical terminology. However, not all of the conference participants engaged on Twitter, and might thereby risk being excluded from this backchannel.
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Effective use of Twitter and Facebook in pathology practice. Hum Pathol 2018; 73:128-143. [DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2017.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Allen CG, Andersen B, Chambers DA, Groshek J, Roberts MC. Twitter use at the 2016 Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health: analyzing #DIScience16. Implement Sci 2018; 13:34. [PMID: 29458394 PMCID: PMC5819210 DOI: 10.1186/s13012-018-0723-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Poor dissemination of research findings may hamper the reach and impact of scientific discoveries. One key emerging platform for research dissemination is social media, including Twitter. While Twitter and other social media are increasingly being used to disseminate research content presented during scientific conferences, few studies have investigated the extent to which these tools are used throughout conferences and how they are being used. The aim for this study was to better understand the use of Twitter during the 2016 Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I conference). Methods We performed an analysis of Twitter use before, during, and after the 2016 D&I conference, which took place from December 14 to 15. All tweets (posted between December 1 and 31) that included the conference-specific hashtag (#DIScience16) were assessed. We identified 2639 tweets using the data analytics platform NUVI. We used NUVI software to generate statistics about reach, influence, mentions, and origin of the tweets. Individual tweet content was also assessed using DiscoverText and coded for disease category, implementation outcomes discussed, category of tweet, and conference track. Results A total of 2639 tweets were analyzed; 89.1% of the tweets were posted during the conference. A total of 389 unique users participated on Twitter, representing 31 states and 22 locations outside of the USA. Most (56.8%) tweets were re-tweets and were used for scientific promotion (50.6%). Key conference speakers and implementation outcomes (de-implementation, adaptation, and fidelity) were commonly discussed. Conclusions Our findings reveal that Twitter was used as a platform during the D&I conference, both to facilitate conference discussion and to promote scientific ideas. This work contributes to the existing data analytics and implementation science literature in two major ways: (1) by advancing knowledge of how social media is used during annual academic conferences and (2) by providing a deeper understanding of themes and emerging areas of interest in the dissemination and implementation sciences. Knowing specific topics of interest can help planners and scientists better understand the landscape of current and future implementation research and encourage new research dissemination strategies.
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- Caitlin G Allen
- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
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- Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, 704 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, 704 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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Tomlinson S, Haas M, Skaugset LM, Cico SJ, Wolff M, Santen S, Lin M, Huang R. Using Twitter to increase content dissemination and control educational content with Presenter Initiated and Generated Live Educational Tweets (PIGLETs). MEDICAL TEACHER 2017; 39:768-772. [PMID: 28449610 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2017.1317727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Live-tweeting during educational presentations is typically learner-generated and can lead to misquoted information. Presenter curated tweets have not been well described. We created Presenter Initiated and Generated Live Educational Tweets (PIGLETs) with the goal to broaden the reach of educational conferences. We hypothesized that using PIGLETs would increase the reach and exposure of our material. We developed a prospective single-arm intervention study performed during the "Not Another Boring Lecture" workshops presented at two national conferences in 2015. Presenters tweeted PIGLETs linked to unique hashtags #NotAnotherBoringLecture and #InnovateMedEd. Analytic software was used to measure the following outcomes: (1) number of tweets published by presenters versus learners, (2) reach (users exposed to content containing the hashtag), and (3) exposure (total number of times content was delivered). One hundred and twenty-six participants attended the workshops. A total of 636 tweets (including retweets) were sent by presenters containing the study hashtags, compared with 162 sent by learners. #NotAnotherBoringLecture reached 47,200 users and generated 136,400 impressions; #InnovateMedEd reached 36,400 users and generated 79,100 impressions. PIGLETs allowed presenters to reach a significant number of learners, as well as control the content delivered through Twitter. PIGLETs can be used to augment educational sessions beyond the physical confines of the classroom.
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- Sarah Tomlinson
- a Department of Emergency Medicine , University of Michigan Health Systems , Ann Arbor , MI , USA
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- a Department of Emergency Medicine , University of Michigan Health Systems , Ann Arbor , MI , USA
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- b Department of Emergency Medicine , Mary Bridge Children's Hospital , Tacoma , WA , USA
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- c Department of Emergency Medicine , Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis , IN , USA
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- a Department of Emergency Medicine , University of Michigan Health Systems , Ann Arbor , MI , USA
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- a Department of Emergency Medicine , University of Michigan Health Systems , Ann Arbor , MI , USA
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- d Department of Emergency Medicine , University of California San Francisco , San Francisco , CA , USA
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- a Department of Emergency Medicine , University of Michigan Health Systems , Ann Arbor , MI , USA
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