Department of Surgery, Rockhampton Base Hospital, The Range, Queensland, Australia.
Department of Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Eur Urol. 2014 Jul;66(1):112-7. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.01.034. Epub 2014 Feb 7.
Online journal clubs have increasingly been utilised to overcome the limitations of the traditional journal club. However, to date, no reported online journal club is available for international participation.
To present a 12-mo experience from the International Urology Journal Club, the world's first international journal club using Twitter, an online micro-blogging platform, and to demonstrate the viability and sustainability of such a journal club.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: #urojc is an asynchronous 48-h monthly journal club moderated by the Twitter account @iurojc. The open invitation discussions focussed on papers typically published within the previous 2-4 wk. Data were obtained via third-party Twitter analysis services.
Outcomes analysed included number of total and new users, number of tweets, and qualitative analysis of the relevance of tweets. Analysis was undertaken using GraphPad software, Microsoft Excel, and thematic qualitative analysis.
The first 12 mo saw a total of 189 unique users representing 19 countries and 6 continents. There was a mean of 39 monthly participants that included 14 first-time participants per month. The mean number of tweets per month was 195 of which 62% represented original tweets directly related to the topic of discussion and 22% represented retweets of original posts. A mean of 130 832 impressions, or reach, were created per month. The @iurojc moderator account has accumulated >1000 followers. The study is limited by potentially incomplete data extracted by third-party Twitter analysers.
Social media provides a potential for enormous international communication that has not been possible in the past. We believe the pioneering #urojc is both viable and sustainable. There is unlimited scope for journal clubs in other fields to follow the example of #urojc and utilise online portals to revitalise the traditional journal club while fostering international relationships.
在线期刊俱乐部已越来越多地被用于克服传统期刊俱乐部的局限性。然而，迄今为止，尚无可供国际参与的在线期刊俱乐部报告。
介绍使用 Twitter（在线微博平台）进行的国际泌尿学期刊俱乐部的 12 个月经验，这是世界上第一个国际期刊俱乐部，并展示此类期刊俱乐部的可行性和可持续性。
设计、设置和参与者：#urojc 是一个异步的每月 48 小时期刊俱乐部，由 Twitter 账户@iurojc 主持。公开邀请的讨论集中在通常在过去 2-4 周内发表的论文上。数据通过第三方 Twitter 分析服务获得。
分析的结果包括总用户和新用户的数量、推文的数量以及推文相关性的定性分析。使用 GraphPad 软件、Microsoft Excel 和主题定性分析进行分析。
前 12 个月共有 189 位来自 19 个国家和 6 大洲的独特用户。每月有 39 名参与者，其中每月有 14 名首次参与者。每月推文的平均数量为 195 条，其中 62%代表与讨论主题直接相关的原始推文，22%代表原始帖子的转发。每月平均创建 130832 次印象，或触达率。@iurojc 主持人账户已积累了>1000 名关注者。该研究的局限性在于第三方 Twitter 分析器可能无法完整提取数据。
社交媒体提供了过去无法实现的巨大国际交流的潜力。我们相信，开创性的#urojc 不仅可行而且可持续。在其他领域的期刊俱乐部可以效仿#urojc 的榜样，利用在线门户振兴传统期刊俱乐部，同时促进国际关系。
