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Twitter for travel medicine providers

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Travel Medicine, March 2016
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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9 X users

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Title
Twitter for travel medicine providers
Published in
Journal of Travel Medicine, March 2016
DOI 10.1093/jtm/taw002
Pubmed ID
Authors

Deborah J. Mills, Sarah E. Kohl

Abstract

Travel medicine practitioners, perhaps more so than medical practitioners working in other areas of medicine, require a constant flow of information to stay up-to-date, and provide best practice information and care to their patients. Many travel medicine providers are unaware of the popularity and potential of the Twitter platform. Twitter use among our travellers, as well as by physicians and health providers, is growing exponentially. There is a rapidly expanding body of published literature on this information tool. This review provides a brief overview of the ways Twitter is being used by health practitioners, the advantages that are peculiar to Twitter as a platform of social media, and how the interested practitioner can get started. Some key points about the dark side of Twitter are highlighted, as well as the potential benefits of using Twitter as a way to disseminate accurate medical information to the public. This article will help readers develop an increased understanding of Twitter as a tool for extracting useful facts and insights from the ever increasing volume of health information.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 22%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Researcher 3 8%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 8 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 14%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Computer Science 3 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 14 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 15 May 2017.
All research outputs
#6,334,439
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Travel Medicine
#420
of 1,349 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,709
of 314,940 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Travel Medicine
#7
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,349 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 22 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 68% of its contemporaries.