Medical journals, impact and social media: an ecological study of the Twittersphere

Cosco, Theodore D.

doi:10.1503/cmaj.150976

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“…Twitter, therefore, allows for concise messaging that mandates a given post be shortened to one or two major principles, allowing physicians to rapidly peruse topics of interest. Although the number of journals with Twitter accounts remains low (less than one-third of general medical journals in one study3), journals actively expanding their social media presence have reported significantly increased online website traffic1 as was seen with JNIS in the present study. Additionally, one ecological study demonstrated a positive correlation between the number of Twitter followers for a given journal and its impact factor and article citations 3.…”

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“…Although the number of journals with Twitter accounts remains low (less than one-third of general medical journals in one study3), journals actively expanding their social media presence have reported significantly increased online website traffic1 as was seen with JNIS in the present study. Additionally, one ecological study demonstrated a positive correlation between the number of Twitter followers for a given journal and its impact factor and article citations 3. In fact, highly tweeted articles at the time of publication can predict highly cited articles 6.…”

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Expanding the social media presence of theJournal of Neurointerventional Surgery: editor's report

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The use of social media is pervasive throughout society and serves many purposes. Traditional forms of advertising are being upended as vendors recognize the unique abilities of social media platforms to target their messages to specific customers. Peer reviewed medical and professional journals are beginning to develop their own initiatives using social media to advertize unique content. We present the nascent Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery experience.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 44%

Expanding the social media presence of theJournal of Neurointerventional Surgery: editor's report

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“…31 On the other hand, tweets can forecast highly cited articles in the first 3 days of article publication 32 and the extent of a general medical journal's Twitter followers is strongly related to its impact factor and citations. 33 Of more interest, the potential of altmetrics to inform funders about research impact is growing fast and attracts the attention of medical research funders and charities, eg the Welcome Trust. 34 Another good example would be the John Templeton Foundation, who award more than $100 million a year in research funding.…”

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“…Pilot studies of Facebook “likes” and Twitter mentions have pointed to an association between social media attention and traditional impact metrics, such as citations and downloads, in the field of psychology and psychiatry (4849) and emergency medicine (50). Although no such association has been reported across many other fields of science, wider distribution of journal information through social media holds promise for distinguishing popular and scientifically important research output (515253). …”

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The Journal Impact Factor: Moving Toward an Alternative and Combined Scientometric Approach

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The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a single citation metric, which is widely employed for ranking journals and choosing target journals, but is also misused as the proxy of the quality of individual articles and academic achievements of authors. This article analyzes Scopus-based publication activity on the JIF and overviews some of the numerous misuses of the JIF, global initiatives to overcome the ‘obsession’ with impact factors, and emerging strategies to revise the concept of the scholarly impact. The growing number of articles on the JIF, most of which are in English, reflects interest of experts in journal editing and scientometrics toward its uses, misuses, and options to overcome related problems. Solely displaying values of the JIFs on the journal websites is criticized by experts as these average metrics do not reflect skewness of citation distribution of individual articles. Emerging strategies suggest to complement the JIFs with citation plots and alternative metrics, reflecting uses of individual articles in terms of downloads and distribution of related information through social media and networking platforms. It is also proposed to revise the original formula of the JIF calculation and embrace the concept of the impact and importance of individual articles. The latter is largely dependent on ethical soundness of the journal instructions, proper editing and structuring of articles, efforts to promote related information through social media, and endorsements of professional societies.

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Medical journals, impact and social media: an ecological study of the Twittersphere

Cited by 63 publications

References 16 publications

Expanding the social media presence of theJournal of Neurointerventional Surgery: editor's report

Expanding the social media presence of theJournal of Neurointerventional Surgery: editor's report

Altmetric: Top 50 dental articles in 2014

The Journal Impact Factor: Moving Toward an Alternative and Combined Scientometric Approach

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