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Social media attention increases citation rates for rheumatology journal articles
Key clinical point: Social media might be the way to go for authors hoping to bump up the number of times their articles are cited by other articles.
Major finding: The total number of Twitter mentions increased by 2.8 per year from 2015 to 2019, indicating that more recently published articles were more often picked up on Twitter.
Study details: An analysis of more than 2,000 articles published during January 2015–November 2019 in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases and RMD Open.
Disclosures: The study had no outside funding. Both authors are social media advisers to ARD and RMD Open, and Dr. Ospelt is an associate editor of RMD Open and an editorial board member of ARD. Dr. Studenic reported receiving research or grant support from AbbVie, and Dr. Ospelt reported receiving consultancy fees from Gilead Sciences.
Studenic P and Ospelt C. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Jun;79(suppl 1):208.