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History of Social Media in Surgery

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 (75th percentile)

Mentioned by

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14 tweeters

Citations

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20 Dimensions

Readers on

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45 Mendeley
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Title
History of Social Media in Surgery
Published in
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, September 2017
DOI 10.1055/s-0037-1604250
Pubmed ID
28924395
Authors

Heather Logghe, Cedrek McFadden, Natalie Tully, Christian Jones

Abstract

In many ways, the history of surgeons on Twitter echoes the initial resistance and ultimate mass adoption of laparoscopic surgery that led to the field of minimally invasive surgery. At its inception, social media was similarly met with skepticism and concerns of threats to professionalism. Despite these concerns, numerous surgeons and other physicians pioneered the use of social media to establish a virtual medical community and share scientific knowledge regarding a variety of topics including medical conferences, journal publications, and more. After these initial successes, surgeons' views have evolved, leading to mass adoption of social media and participation on Twitter as a means of professional networking and dissemination of science. This article chronicles that history.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Other 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 14 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 38%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 18 40%

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 14 July 2019.
All research outputs
#4,220,894
of 23,003,906 outputs
Outputs from Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
#68
of 335 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,856
of 316,011 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
#8
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,003,906 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 335 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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