Paradigm Shift or Annoying Distraction

Spallek, Heiko; O’Donnell, Jean; Clayton, Mike; Anderson, Paul M.; Krueger, Alan B.

doi:10.4338/aci-2010-01-cr-0003

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“…rules regarding open science in which scientific collaboration and digital technologies are fundamental and involve both researchers and practitioners as well as rules concerning the use of data by nonscientific people. Moreover, these results highlight the importance of conducting behavioural studies on virtual research to understand the factors that influence the effective operation and performance of different open science tools [38,39].…”

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Knowledge and Perceptions of Open Science among Researchers—A Case Study for Colombia

Martínez

Poveda

2018

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Open science can provide researchers diverse opportunities to collaborate, disseminate their research results, generate important impacts in the scientific community, and engage in effective and efficient science for the benefit of society. This study seeks to analyse and evaluate researchers’ knowledge of open science in Colombia using a survey to determine adequate instruments with which to improve research in the framework of open science. The aim of the study is to determine researchers’ current awareness of open science by considering demographic characteristics to analyse their attitudes, values, and information habits as well as the levels of institutionalism and social appropriation of open science. A representative sample of Colombian researchers was selected from the National Research System. An anonymous online survey consisting of 34 questions was sent to all professors and researchers at Colombian universities and research institutes. Sampling was random and stratified, which allowed for a representative sample of different categories of researchers, and principal component analysis (PCA) was used for the sample design. A total of 1042 responses were received, with a 95% confidence level and a margin of error of 3%. The majority of respondents knew about open science, especially in relation to open science tools (software, repositories, and networks) and open data. Researchers consider open science to be positively impacted by factors such as the rise of digital technologies, the search for new forms of collaboration, the greater availability of open data and information, and public demand for better and more effective science. In contrast, a lack of resources to develop research activities within the open science approach and the limited integration between traditional and open science are identified as the most important barriers to its use in research. These results are important for building adequate open science policy in Colombia.

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Knowledge and Perceptions of Open Science among Researchers—A Case Study for Colombia

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2018

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“…As social media continue to evolve, and a younger generation of dental clinicians move into practice, use of social media can be expected to increase. Spallek and colleagues [ 33 ] argued that the issue is not whether clinicians will use social media for professional use (because this is certain), but rather how social media information transmission benefits can be maximized. Perhaps the most striking finding of our research is the phenomenon of clinicians as information providers for other clinicians on social media.…”

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Dental Blogs, Podcasts, and Associated Social Media: Descriptive Mapping and Analysis

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BackgroundStudies of social media in both medicine and dentistry have largely focused on the value of social media for marketing to and communicating with patients and for clinical education. There is limited evidence of how dental clinicians contribute to and use social media to disseminate and access information relevant to clinical care.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to inventory and assess the entry, growth, sources, and content of clinically relevant social media in dentistry.MethodsWe developed an inventory of blogs, podcasts, videos, and associated social media disseminating clinical information to dentists. We assessed hosts’ media activity in terms of their combinations of modalities, entry and exit dates, frequency of posting, types of content posted, and size of audience.ResultsOur study showed that clinically relevant information is posted by dentists and hygienists on social media. Clinically relevant information was provided in 89 blogs and podcasts, and topic analysis showed motives for blogging by host type: 55% (49 hosts) were practicing dentists or hygienists, followed by consultants (27 hosts, 30%), media including publishers and discussion board hosts (8 hosts, 9%), and professional organizations and corporations.ConclusionsWe demonstrated the participation of and potential for practicing dentists and hygienists to use social media to share clinical and other information with practicing colleagues. There is a clear audience for these social media sites, suggesting a changing mode of information diffusion in dentistry. This study was a first effort to fill the gap in understanding the nature and potential role of social media in clinical dentistry.

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“…Human capital is also acquired through experience. Clinicians who have accumulated knowledge [16] through their own career may have less interest or need to navigate complex and time-consuming written materials [2, 4, 7, 32, 33], which may enable them to more easily discern the utility and relevance from other curated sources. We therefore hypothesize that clinicians with knowledge based on accumulated experience will align more with a “medical professionalism” logic and show a lower preference for more difficult to access (peer-reviewed) materials and a higher preference for curated publications (magazines and other publications) .…”

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Preferences for peer-reviewed versus other publication sources: a survey of general dentists in the National Dental PBRN

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Background Medical professionals have access to a broad range of resources to address clinical information needs. While much attention is given to new sources of data such as those available on the internet, it is less clear how clinicians choose between peer-reviewed research literature and other publication-based sources. This analysis distinguishes between possible drivers of publication type preference (namely, practice setting, advanced training, professional development experiences). Dentists enrolled in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) are the population for this study. Theories of human and intellectual capital and institutional logics theory are used to understand how advanced training and other clinical experiences may explain the choices that dentists make when faced with clinical questions. Methods An online questionnaire was implemented with general dentists in the US National Dental PBRN. A series of logistic and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models were used to explain the use of peer-reviewed and other publications. Measures of knowledge-based human capital distinctions (advanced clinical training and research engagement, advanced professional status, personal motivation for professional advancement) were used to explain preferences for research literature as a clinical resource. Results General dentists with advanced training, as well as those with a skill advancement motivation, show a preference for peer-reviewed materials. General dentists who have been practicing longer tend to favor other dental publications, preferring those sources as a resource when faced with clinical challenges. Human capital and professional motivation distinguish the information preferences among general dentists. Further, these factors explain more variance in use of peer-reviewed materials than practice setting does. Few differences by demographic groups were evident. Conclusions Results point to a distinct variation in the general dentistry professional community. Advanced training among general dentists, as well as the types of procedures typically conducted in their practice, distinguishes their information preferences from other general dentists, including those with more years of clinical experience.

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Paradigm Shift or Annoying Distraction

Cited by 23 publications

References 64 publications

Knowledge and Perceptions of Open Science among Researchers—A Case Study for Colombia

Knowledge and Perceptions of Open Science among Researchers—A Case Study for Colombia

Dental Blogs, Podcasts, and Associated Social Media: Descriptive Mapping and Analysis

Preferences for peer-reviewed versus other publication sources: a survey of general dentists in the National Dental PBRN

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