Department of Urology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Frank Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, USA.
Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Jan;7(1):214-220. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2019.05.004. Epub 2019 May 15.
Social media is an increasingly popular means to disseminate medical research. However, it is unknown whether the extent to which content is shared mirrors conventional measures of scientific merit or impact.
To examine whether Twitter activity (as measured by the number of "likes" and "retweets" [RTs]) relating to original research presented at a national urology meeting was associated with subsequent publication status and journal impact factor (IF).
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We retrospectively reviewed Twitter data obtained through the Keyhole archiving platform using the hashtag "#aua15" from May 1 through June 1, 2015 reflecting the hashtag of the American Urological Association (AUA) meeting.
We analyzed all posts containing keywords related to research studies. Among posts reporting on newly presented studies with discernable attribution, we evaluated subsequent publication status within 45 mo, including journal IF. We compared social media reception (number of likes/RTs) by publication status, and assessed the relationship between social media reception and subsequent journal IF using Pearson's correlation.
A total of 15 303 posts were associated with #aua15 between May 1 and June 1, 2015, which reached 2 263 438 users. The median number of likes/RTs was 2 (interquartile range 1-3). We analyzed all posts receiving at least one like/RT (n = 2964) for text content related to research and identified 496 associated with new scientific studies presented at the meeting. Forty-five months following the AUA meeting, 96 studies were identifiable on PubMed (19.4%). Research with more likes/RTs at the AUA meeting were more likely to be subsequently published (p = 0.001). Among published studies, there was a modest, positive correlation between the number of likes/RTs and publication journal IF (r = 0.36).
Measures of social media engagement with data presented at a national medical meeting were positively correlated with subsequent publication and journal IF after presentation.
New urological research that was shared more often at a national meeting was more likely to be published in journals that are more highly cited.
社交媒体是一种越来越流行的传播医学研究的方式。然而，目前尚不清楚内容被分享的程度是否反映了传统的科学价值或影响力衡量标准。
检验与全国泌尿科会议上提出的原创研究相关的 Twitter 活跃度（通过“点赞”和“转发”[RT]的数量来衡量）是否与后续的出版状况和期刊影响因子（IF）相关。
设计、设置和参与者：我们回顾性地审查了通过 Keyhole 归档平台从 2015 年 5 月 1 日至 6 月 1 日获取的与美国泌尿外科学会（AUA）会议相关的#aua15 标签的 Twitter 数据。
我们分析了所有包含与研究相关的关键词的帖子。在报告具有明显归属的新发表研究的帖子中，我们评估了 45 个月内的后续出版状况，包括期刊 IF。我们比较了出版状况的社交媒体接受度（点赞/转发数），并使用 Pearson 相关分析评估了社交媒体接受度与后续期刊 IF 之间的关系。
在 2015 年 5 月 1 日至 6 月 1 日期间，与#aua15 相关的共有 15303 个帖子，覆盖了 2263438 名用户。点赞/转发中位数为 2（四分位距 1-3）。我们分析了所有至少获得一个点赞/转发的帖子（n=2964），以获取与会议上提出的新科学研究相关的文本内容，并确定了 496 个与会议上提出的新科学研究相关的帖子。在 AUA 会议后 45 个月，可在 PubMed 上识别出 96 项研究（19.4%）。在 AUA 会议上获得更多点赞/转发的研究更有可能随后发表（p=0.001）。在已发表的研究中，点赞/转发数与出版期刊 IF 之间存在适度的正相关关系（r=0.36）。
全国医学会议上提出的数据的社交媒体参与度与会议后发表和期刊 IF 呈正相关。
在全国会议上分享得更频繁的新泌尿科研究更有可能发表在引用率较高的期刊上。
