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Nurses and Twitter: The good, the bad, and the reluctant

Overview of attention for article published in Collegian : journal of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia., June 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 643)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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1 blog
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159 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
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1 Google+ user

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Title
Nurses and Twitter: The good, the bad, and the reluctant
Published in
Collegian : journal of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia., June 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.colegn.2013.09.003
Pubmed ID
Authors

Rhonda Wilson, Jamie Ranse, Andrew Cashin, Paul McNamara

Abstract

Nurses and other health professionals are adopting social media to network with health care professionals and organizations, support health education, deliver health promotion messages, enhance professional development and employment opportunities, and communicate within political forums. This paper explores the growing use of social media, and examines the current dynamics of Twitter as an example of the uptake of social media. This paper also offers practical guidance for new Twitter users who are interested in using this social media approach in clinical or educational settings, and for professional development.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Canada 2 2%
Spain 2 2%
New Zealand 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Unknown 102 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Other 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Other 33 29%
Unknown 20 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 27 23%
Social Sciences 17 15%
Computer Science 15 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 24 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 111. 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 30 August 2022.
All research outputs
#378,837
of 25,398,331 outputs
Outputs from Collegian : journal of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia.
#3
of 643 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,202
of 240,899 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Collegian : journal of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia.
#2
of 11 outputs
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