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| Title |
Cancer patients on Twitter: a novel patient community on social media
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-699 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Yuya Sugawara, Hiroto Narimatsu, Atsushi Hozawa, Li Shao, Katsumi Otani, Akira Fukao |
| Abstract |
Patients increasingly turn to the Internet for information on medical conditions, including clinical news and treatment options. In recent years, an online patient community has arisen alongside the rapidly expanding world of social media, or "Web 2.0." Twitter provides real-time dissemination of news, information, personal accounts and other details via a highly interactive form of social media, and has become an important online tool for patients. This medium is now considered to play an important role in the modern social community of online, "wired" cancer patients. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 94 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 26 | 28% |
| Spain | 7 | 7% |
| France | 7 | 7% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Greece | 3 | 3% |
| Israel | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 29 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 73 | 78% |
| Scientists | 10 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 181 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 173 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 12% |
| Researcher | 19 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 10% |
| Other | 16 | 9% |
| Other | 50 | 28% |
| Unknown | 25 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 16% |
| Computer Science | 26 | 14% |
| Psychology | 9 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 29 | 16% |
| Unknown | 36 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 October 2021.
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#446,683
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#29
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#3,310
of 285,938 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#1
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