Dissemination of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research on Social Media Platforms Is Associated With Increased Citation Count.

Ayoub, Fares; Ouni, Ahmed; Case, Robert; Ladna, Michael; Shah, Harsh; Rubin, David T · Am J Gastroenterol · 2021

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether dissemination of gastroenterology and hepatology (GI) research on social media networks correlates with citation count at 5 years. We correlated the Altmetric Attention Score with Web of Science citation counts at 5 years for scholarly work published in the 10 highest impact factor GI journals in 2014. In 4,026 analyzed items, the correlation (r) between Altmetric Attention Score and citations at 5 years was 0.62 (P < 0.001), representing strong correlation. Twitter was the platform with the strongest correlation with citations. Social media attention garnered by GI scholarly work strongly correlates with the number of citations at 5 years.

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