Lynch Conor P, Cha Elliot D K, Jacob Kevin C, Patel Madhav R, Jenkins Nathaniel W, Parrish James M, Jadczak Caroline N, Mohan Shruthi, Geoghegan Cara E, Singh Kern
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Int J Spine Surg. 2022 Apr;16(2):264-271. doi: 10.14444/8213.
The Altmetric (Digital Science, Holtzbrinck Publishing) Attention Score (AAS) is an automatically calculated score that accounts for other literary influences, which include academic sources as well as nonacademically focused social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, and news articles. This study compares the most popular cervical surgery articles on social media to the most cited articles within peer-reviewed literature and identifies journals that contribute the most articles and geographic trends.
We searched the Altmetric database for cervical spine surgery articles since inception using the search phrase "cervical" and "spine." We ranked journals that contributed the most articles and calculated their AAS, contributing social media outlets (eg, Twitter, Facebook, News, etc) and citation counts. We also ranked the top 100 most popular cervical spine articles on social media and compared them to the most cited articles. Countries were assessed based on their mentions through the most contributing social media platform.
Of the 527 total journals identified in our search, the top 10 journals were responsible for contributing 60.2% of the total articles. The 3 journals that contributed the most articles were (18.9%), (11.8%), and (10.3%). The journals with the highest AAS scores included (11.3), (8.8), and (5.8). Social media outlets that contributed the most mentions per article were Twitter (4.4), Facebook (0.5), and news sources (0.3). Among all countries contributing Twitter mentions, the 3 countries with the most cervical spine posts included the United States (23.3%), the United Kingdom (10.3%), and Spain (5.5%).
Our evaluation of cervical spine literature revealed Twitter, Facebook, and news sources are the most common social media outlets influencing title dissemination. Journals contributing the most articles did not necessarily have the highest average AAS.
Spinal surgeons should consider utilization of social media outlets, such as Twitter, Facebook, and news sources, to potentially increase the dissemination of their articles.
Altmetric（数字科学公司，霍尔茨布林克出版集团）关注度评分（AAS）是一个自动计算的评分，它考虑了其他文献影响力，包括学术来源以及诸如推特、脸书和新闻文章等非学术性社交媒体渠道。本研究将社交媒体上最受欢迎的颈椎手术文章与同行评审文献中被引用最多的文章进行比较，并确定发表文章最多的期刊以及地理趋势。
我们自数据库创建以来，使用搜索词“颈椎”和“脊柱”在Altmetric数据库中搜索颈椎手术文章。我们对发表文章最多的期刊进行排名，并计算它们的AAS、有贡献的社交媒体渠道（如推特、脸书、新闻等）以及被引用次数。我们还对社交媒体上最受欢迎的100篇颈椎文章进行排名，并将它们与被引用最多的文章进行比较。根据在贡献最大的社交媒体平台上的提及情况对各国进行评估。
在我们搜索到的总共527种期刊中，排名前十的期刊发表的文章占文章总数的60.2%。发表文章最多的3种期刊分别是[期刊名1]（18.9%）、[期刊名2]（11.8%）和[期刊名3]（10.3%）。AAS评分最高的期刊包括[期刊名4]（11.3）、[期刊名5]（8.8）和[期刊名6]（5.8）。每篇文章提及次数最多的社交媒体渠道是推特（4.4）、脸书（0.5）和新闻来源（0.3）。在所有有推特提及的国家中，颈椎相关推文最多的3个国家包括美国（23.3%）、英国（10.3%）和西班牙（5.5%）。
我们对颈椎文献的评估表明，推特、脸书和新闻来源是影响文章传播的最常见社交媒体渠道。发表文章最多的期刊不一定具有最高的平均AAS。
脊柱外科医生应考虑利用推特、脸书和新闻来源等社交媒体渠道来潜在地增加其文章的传播。
