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Integrating Social Media into Urologic Health care: What Can We Learn from Other Disciplines?

Overview of attention for article published in Current Urology Reports, January 2016
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Title
Integrating Social Media into Urologic Health care: What Can We Learn from Other Disciplines?
Published in
Current Urology Reports, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11934-015-0570-2
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Authors

Johannes Salem, Hendrik Borgmann, Declan G. Murphy

Abstract

Social media (SoMe) have become an integral part in many aspects of personal and professional life. With current uptake rates of 50-70 % among urologists, SoMe platforms merit huge potential for dissemination of information and professional exchange among stakeholders in urology. Application of SoMe includes conference conversations via tweet chats, health education via YouTube videos, and Twitter online journal clubs. In addition, a number of urology journals have embraced SoMe to allow rapid dissemination of their content and engagement with their readers. Guidance for the appropriate use of SoMe is provided to urologists by several organizations. Besides urology, other disciplines have adopted SoMe for a variety of areas: continuing professional development, awareness of rare diseases, recruitment of study participants, patient education and support, and publicizing research. Openness to new approaches is the basic prerequisite for a transfer of successful concepts embraced by other specialties, to the field of urology.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 2%
Unknown 59 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 13%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Other 10 17%
Unknown 19 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 27%
Engineering 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Computer Science 4 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 20 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 12 May 2016.
All research outputs
#4,065,072
of 23,298,349 outputs
Outputs from Current Urology Reports
#121
of 601 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,783
of 397,959 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Urology Reports
#2
of 10 outputs
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