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What Are the Most Popular Articles in Urogynecology and Who Is Disseminating Them?
Stephanie Nicole Williams1, Jocelyn Fitzgerald2
1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Importance:
This research describes which articles published in Urogynecology are garnering the most attention online. Understanding which articles are having the largest impact in the online community has become increasingly important due to the exponential increase in the use of social media on the internet.
Objective:
The Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) is a quantitative and qualitative measure of the articles' online attention in social media and news outlets, blogs, and reference managers. The aim of this study was to provide an analysis of those accessing and sharing the 100 most popular articles published in Urogynecology .
Study Design:
This was a retrospective descriptive analysis. Using Dimensions, a "linked research knowledge system," data about each article's demographics on Twitter and other media sources was extracted from each of the articles within Urogynecology with the highest AAS. No articles were excluded. The articles were categorized by topic and metrics of online sharing were compared among categories.
Results:
Fifteen categories were created. Sexual health and education articles had the highest average Altmetric scores per article and reached the highest impressions per article and had the highest average follower count per Twitter user. On average, social justice in medicine had the highest number of tweets per article. Tweets were most often composed by members of the public (58%) compared with health care practitioners (14%), researchers (13%), and science communicators (12%).
Conclusions:
Sexual health and education articles had the highest average AAS and impressions on Twitter. We observed a difference in which articles are being shared most among the general public and health care professionals. The general public comprised a majority of those sharing articles online regardless of category. Additionally, there may be a disparity in research, its funding, and online scientific communications within the field of urogynecology.
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