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Title: Citation indices for social media articles in urology.
Austin Authors: Calopedos, Ross J S;Garcia, Cindy;Rashid, Prem;Murphy, Declan G;Lawrentschuk, Nathan;Woo, Henry H
Affiliation: Division of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Department of Uro-Oncology, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Rural Clinical School, University of NSW, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Department of Urology, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Department of Urology, Port Macquarie Base Hospital, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Issue Date: May-2017
Publication information: BJU International 2017; 119 Suppl 5: 47-52
Abstract: To evaluate the impact of publications on urological participation in social media (SoMe) by virtue of citations in the urological and non-urological literature. On 15 March 2016, a PubMed search was undertaken using the names of the major SoMe platforms in current use and associated with the field of urology. The search term 'urolog*' was used to specifically capture articles that could be associated with 'urology', 'urologist' or 'urological'. Exclusion criteria for analysis included non-English language articles, articles published for the first time online in any form after 1 March 2015, articles irrelevant to the topic of SoMe, and letters of correspondence. Included articles were then searched in Google Scholar and citations analysed to determine if citations were from the urological literature or non-urological literature. Citations from non-urological journals were considered to be as such even if authored by urologists and on the subject of urology and SoMe. Prior to exclusions as defined in the methods, our PubMed search yielded 232 articles of which 17 were non-English language and 66 had been published after 1 March 2015. Allowing for 12 months after the most recent articles were published, we found that the mean number of total citations in any journal was 20.8. There were more citations in journals not specific to urology, with 8.3 citations in urological journals, compared to 12.6 citations in non-urological journals. Urological SoMe journal articles are highly cited, particularly in the non-urological literature. It is likely that the magnitude of citations has positively contributed to the impact factors of the almost all journals publishing these manuscripts.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/18954
DOI: 10.1111/bju.13872
ORCID: 0000-0001-8553-5618
Journal: BJU International
PubMed URL: 28544295
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: impact factor
social media
urology
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