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Changing the Rules of the Game: How Do We Measure Success in Social Media?

Overview of attention for article published in Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, September 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)

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Title
Changing the Rules of the Game: How Do We Measure Success in Social Media?
Published in
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, September 2017
DOI 10.1055/s-0037-1604254
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Authors

Aisling M Hogan, Desmond C Winter

Abstract

Ours will be the generation proud to say we shifted the sands of educational deserts by open access and proliferation, seeding of data sharing, and watering grassroots research in resource-compromised environments. Universal "social" media is defining features of modern professional life that provide powerful modes of knowledge acquisition/sharing to that end. Altmetric and other measurements stratify academic communications according to this alternate, online media presence (not academic penetrance). Are they meaningless, self-absorbed integers, or reliable yardsticks of scientific and educational prowess? Far beyond this trite, patronizing question from the minds of outdated, terrified technophobes, the real impact of "social" media is not narcissistic solipsism. Instant dissemination of contemporary surgical controversies on a truly global level drives improved (or at least reflective) health care for all. While a numerical assignment of value according to views, "likes," impressions, or "retweets" may seem meaningless to cynical, established academics, the impetus for universal improvement is self-evident. Electronic data and opinion sharing may not balance the inequity between low- and high-income countries, but it keeps it in perspective. The best way to shift desert sands is to blow on them constantly.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 3 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Other 10 23%
Unknown 14 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 21%
Computer Science 4 9%
Social Sciences 4 9%
Psychology 2 5%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 15 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 25 October 2017.
All research outputs
#5,305,210
of 25,074,338 outputs
Outputs from Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
#93
of 371 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84,280
of 321,443 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
#9
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,074,338 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 371 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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