Understanding Social Media: Opportunities for Cardiovascular Medicine
12 Mar 2019-Journal of the American College of Cardiology (J Am Coll Cardiol)-Vol. 73, Iss: 9, pp 1089-1093
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the basics of social media usage (with the focus on Twitter), provide perspective on best social media practices in academic and clinical cardiovascular medicine, and present a vision for social media and the future of cardiovascular medicine.
About: This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2019-03-12 and is currently open access. It has received 110 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media.
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TL;DR: The effects of CO VID‐19 in the pediatric and young adult population are described and the cardiovascular involvement in COVID‐19 focusing on implications for patients with congenital heart disease in particular are reviewed.
Abstract: The corona virus disease -2019 (COVID-19) is a recently described infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 with significant cardiovascular implications. Given the increased risk for severe COVID-19 observed in adults with underlying cardiac involvement, there is concern that patients with pediatric and congenital heart disease (CHD) may likewise be at increased risk for severe infection. The cardiac manifestations of COVID-19 include myocarditis, arrhythmia and myocardial infarction. Importantly, the pandemic has stretched health care systems and many care team members are at risk for contracting and possibly transmitting the disease which may further impact the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. In this review, we describe the effects of COVID-19 in the pediatric and young adult population and review the cardiovascular involvement in COVID-19 focusing on implications for patients with congenital heart disease in particular.
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TL;DR: A social media strategy of Twitter promotion for cardiovascular medicine papers seems to be associated with increased online visibility and higher number of citations.
Abstract: AIMS
The association between the dissemination of scientific articles on Twitter and online visibility (including Altmetric score) is still controversial and the impact on citation rates has never been addressed for cardiovascular medicine journals.
METHODS AND RESULTS
The ESC Journals Study randomized 696 papers published in the ESC Journals family (March 2018-May 2019) for promotion on Twitter or to a control arm (with no active tweeting from ESC channels) and aimed to assess if Twitter promotion was associated with an increase in citation rate (primary endpoint) and Altmetric score. This is a preliminary analysis of 536 articles (77% of total) published until December 2018 (therefore, papers published at least 6 months before collecting citation and Altmetrics data). In the analysis of the primary endpoint, Twitter promotion of articles was associated with a 1.43 (95% confidence interval 1.29-1.58) higher rate of citations, and this effect was independent of the type of article. Both Altmetric score and number of users tweeting were positively associated with the number of citations in both arms, with evidence of a stronger association (interaction) in the Twitter arm.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, a social media strategy of Twitter promotion for cardiovascular medicine papers seems to be associated with increased online visibility and higher number of citations. The final analysis will include 696 papers and 2-year scientific citation rate and is estimated to be concluded in March 2021.
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TL;DR: This paper aims to develop a model to measure ethics issues related to engagement with social media and indicates that the assessment of discriminant validity has become an extensively acknowledged requirement for the analysis of latent variables’ relationships.
Abstract: This paper attempts to mitigate this gap within the literature concerning the use of social media for cyber engagement (CE) among students. Since students often become upset when network providers intervene, this paper aims to develop a model to measure ethics issues related to engagement with social media. The conducted survey examines social media use with regard to cyber engagement, cyberbullying behaviors, and being bullied, harassed, and stalked. To achieve the objective, this paper employed a questionnaire as the main data collection method and distributed it to 242 students, all of whom use social media. The findings were obtained via a quantitative research method, structural equation modeling, and partial least squares. The findings from our empirical study indicate that the assessment of discriminant validity has become an extensively acknowledged requirement for the analysis of latent variables’ relationships. Goodness of fit indices demonstrates a good fit of the model. Roughly more than half of students indicated they had been bullied, harassed, and stalked online. The proposed model will help campus administration and decision makers to formulate strategies that can significantly reduce cyber harassment among students.
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TL;DR: The current state of academic promotion and the definition, nature, and merit of digital scholarship are described and new strategies and tools for the assessment of dissemination and impact of these works, such as altmetrics are outlined.
Abstract: Traditionally, scholars focused their efforts in the domains of clinical care, research, and education; however, the last decade has witnessed the rise of novel areas of development such as innovation, quality improvement, informatics, and recently, digital scholarship. Academic institutions adapted and began considering these fields for academic promotion and tenure. Social media has become a critical space for the dissemination of knowledge and outreach to community and policy makers and also for the creation of communities of practice. This new realm brings multiple challenges, such as the appraisal of the quality and appropriateness of the content, the evaluation of impact on the academe and general populations, coupled to the creation of a system to reward scholars engaged in this novel endeavor. In this article, we describe the current state of academic promotion and the definition, nature, and merit of digital scholarship. We outline new strategies and tools for the assessment of dissemination and impact of these works, such as altmetrics, and finally, we reference innovative concepts on how to organize and use this digital academia on career promotion and tenure.
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TL;DR: Social media outlets, particularly Twitter, have gained interest among the cardiovascular community as a modality for dissemination of cardiovascular research as well as a tool to assess the performance of scholarly articles on Web-based media and social media.
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TL;DR: Concerns remain regarding how to assess the impact of journal social media outreach, abundant but unclear metrics, and the magnitude of benefit (if any), particularly given the substantial work required for substantive interactive engagement.
Abstract: Medical journals increasingly use social media to engage their audiences in a variety of ways, from simply broadcasting content via blogs, microblogs, and podcasts to more interactive methods such as Twitter chats and online journal clubs. Online discussion may increase readership and help improve peer review, for example, by providing postpublication peer review. Challenges remain, including the loss of nuance and context of shared work. Furthermore, uncertainty remains regarding how to assess the impact of journal social media outreach, abundant but unclear metrics, and the magnitude of benefit (if any), particularly given the substantial work required for substantive interactive engagement. Continued involvement and innovation from medical journals through social media offers potential in engaging journal audiences and improving knowledge translation.
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TL;DR: Social media has become an increasingly important method of communication in medicine, and the field of cardiology is no different, and Twitter, in particular, has become a forum for communication among health care clinicians and scientists.
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TL;DR: It was a sleepy Thursday morning at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, typical for the final morning of a conference; exhibitor booths had been disassembled, and most attendees had long since departed, but for one Late Breaking Clinical Trial session that remained, the size of the live audience was hardly relevant.
Abstract: It was a sleepy Thursday morning at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, typical for the final morning of a conference; exhibitor booths had been disassembled, and most attendees had long since departed. But for one Late Breaking Clinical Trial session that remained, promising the presentation of a 200-patient trial that was relatively unknown in the months preceding the meeting, the size of the live audience was hardly relevant. Within 72 hours of the presentation, the #ORBITA trial became Twitter’s most discussed cardiology trial perhaps ever, illustrating the potential of social media to disseminate, amplify, refine, and distort the products of academic cardiology. If cardiology’s Fifth Estate was not born on that day, it felt at the least as if it had come of age, newly armed with twice the allowable character count and the ability to tag an ever increasing number of individuals on a tweet. #CardioTwitter had gone viral.
Since then, academic discourse on Twitter has thrived. A stream of study results, visuals, and interpretations can be counted on to run alongside every major academic meeting, creating a bridge between conference attendees and those following along digitally. In many ways, what occurs in this virtual sphere is more than a mere reflection of what is occurring in its physical counterpart. As an academic platform, social media has created an offering that is distinct from, and at times superior to, traditional mechanisms by which cardiologists disseminate, consume, critique, and integrate research into their practices. However, these interactions carry their own unique challenges and risks, many of which participants may discover by trial and error against a background of evolving norms.
Perhaps the most notable difference between discussions at conferences at major meetings and those occurring on social media have been the number of individuals who have been given a public …
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