The top 100 Twitter influencers in cardiology.
Twitter
cardiology
h-index
influence
Journal
AIMS public health
ISSN: 2327-8994
Titre abrégé: AIMS Public Health
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101635098
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
30
08
2021
accepted:
20
10
2021
entrez:
17
11
2021
pubmed:
18
11
2021
medline:
18
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Twitter represents a growing aspect of the social media experience and is a widely used tool for public education in the 21 We sought to identify the top 100 Twitter influencers within cardiology, characterize them, and examine the relationship between their social media activity and academic influence. Twitter topic scores for the topic search "cardiology" were queried on May 01, 2020 using the Right Relevance application programming interface (API). Based on their scores, the top 100 influencers were identified. Among the cardiologists, their academic h-indices were acquired from Scopus and these scores were compared to the Twitter topic scores. We found out that 88/100 (88%) of the top 100 social media influencers on Twitter were cardiologists. Of these, 63/88 (72%) were males and they practiced mostly in the United States with 50/87 (57%) practicing primarily in an academic hospital. There was a moderately positive correlation between the Our study highlights that the top ranked cardiology social media influencers on Twitter are board-certified male cardiologists practicing in academic settings in the US. The most influential on Twitter have a moderate influence in academia. Further research should evaluate the relationship between other academic indices and social media influence.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34786432
doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2021058
pii: publichealth-08-04-058
pmc: PMC8568598
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
743-753Informations de copyright
© 2021 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interest: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
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