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Using twitter in health professional education: a case study.

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Allied Health, January 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 173)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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Title
Using twitter in health professional education: a case study.
Published in
Journal of Allied Health, January 2015
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Authors

Kendra Gagnon

Abstract

The vast majority of health care students, providers, and organizations utilize social media to access and share information. However, there is little research exploring integration of social media into health professional education. This case study describes how the social media site Twitter was used in a first-year physical therapy professionalism course to teach, support, and model professional online communication.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 69 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 12%
Librarian 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Other 6 8%
Other 20 27%
Unknown 12 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 19%
Psychology 7 10%
Social Sciences 6 8%
Computer Science 4 5%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 13 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 11 April 2018.
All research outputs
#2,696,851
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Allied Health
#6
of 173 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,128
of 359,549 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Allied Health
#3
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 173 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 2.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.