Corsi Nicholas, Nguyen David-Dan, Butaney Mohit, Majdalany Sami E, Corsi Matthew P, Malchow Taylor, Piontkowski Austin J, Trinh Quoc-Dien, Loeb Stacy, Abdollah Firas
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; Vattikuti Center for Outcomes, Research, Analytics, and Evaluation, Detroit, MI, USA.
Division of Urology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Eur Urol Focus. 2023 Mar;9(2):396-402. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2022.09.009. Epub 2022 Oct 7.
Social media use in medicine has exploded, with uptake by most physicians and patients. There is a risk of dissemination of inaccurate information about urological conditions on social media. Physicians, as key opinion leaders, must play a role in sharing evidence-based information through social media.
To identify and describe the top 100 urology influencers on the Twitter social media platform and to correlate Twitter influence with academic impact in urology.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Twitter influence scores for the search topic "urology" were collected in April 2022 using published methodology. The top 100 personal accounts with the highest computed scores were linked to individuals' names, all-time h index, geographic location, specialty, attributed sex, and board certification status in this cross-sectional study.
We examined the correlation between influence rank and h index.
Of the top 100 Twitter influencers on the topic of urology, the majority are from the USA (64%), male (85%), and practicing urologists (91%). Some 93% of US urology influencers are board-certified. Only 22 of the 50 US states are represented. The second most frequent country is the UK, with ten urology influencers. The median all-time h index is 42 (interquartile range 28.25-58). There is a weak positive correlation between influence rank and h index (r = 0.23; p = 0.02). Limitations of the study include the inability to validate the accuracy of the proprietary ranking algorithm and investigation of just one social media platform.
The top Twitter influencers in urology are mostly board-certified US urologists. Collectively, influencers have a relatively greater academic impact in comparison to the average urologist, although there is a weak positive correlation between Twitter influence and h index among top Twitter influencers.
Given the explosion of medical information on Twitter, we report the personal accounts with the greatest impact for the topic of "urology". We found that most urology influencers on Twitter are US board-certified urologists with a strong research history.
医学领域对社交媒体的使用呈爆发式增长，大多数医生和患者都在使用。社交媒体上存在传播有关泌尿系统疾病不准确信息的风险。作为关键意见领袖，医生必须在通过社交媒体分享循证信息方面发挥作用。
识别并描述推特社交媒体平台上排名前100的泌尿外科有影响力的人，并将推特影响力与泌尿外科的学术影响力相关联。
设计、背景和参与者：2022年4月，采用已发表的方法收集搜索主题“泌尿外科”的推特影响力得分。在这项横断面研究中，计算得分最高的前100个个人账户与个人姓名、终身h指数、地理位置、专业、性别归属和委员会认证状态相关联。
我们研究了影响力排名与h指数之间的相关性。
在推特上排名前100的泌尿外科有影响力的人中，大多数来自美国（64%），男性（85%），并且是执业泌尿外科医生（91%）。约93%的美国泌尿外科有影响力的人获得了委员会认证。美国50个州中只有22个州有代表。第二常见的国家是英国，有10位泌尿外科有影响力的人。终身h指数的中位数为42（四分位间距28.25 - 58）。影响力排名与h指数之间存在弱正相关（r = 0.23；p = 0.02）。该研究的局限性包括无法验证专有排名算法的准确性，并且仅调查了一个社交媒体平台。
推特上排名前的泌尿外科有影响力的人大多是获得委员会认证的美国泌尿外科医生。总体而言，与普通泌尿外科医生相比，有影响力的人具有相对更大的学术影响力，尽管在推特上排名前的有影响力的人中，推特影响力与h指数之间存在弱正相关。
鉴于推特上医学信息的爆炸式增长，我们报告了“泌尿外科”主题中影响最大的个人账户。我们发现推特上大多数泌尿外科有影响力的人是具有强大研究历史的美国委员会认证的泌尿外科医生。
