Twitter Journal Club Impact on Engagement Metrics of the Neurocritical Care Journal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Twitter journal clubs are a modern way of highlighting articles published in a scientific journal. The Neurocritical Care journal (NCC) initiated a bimonthly, Twitter-based, online journal club in 2015 to increase the outreach of its published articles. We hypothesize that articles included in the Neurocritical Care Society Twitter Journal Club (NCSTJC) had greater engagement than other articles published during the same time period. We also investigated the relationship between number of citations and Altmetric score to assess whether the enhanced online activity resulted in higher citations.

Methods

We gathered data in August 2020 on engagement metrics (number of downloads, Altmetric score, relative citation ratio, and number of citations) of all articles publis

SUBMITTER: Sarwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11929119 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature