Background Academics in all disciplines increasingly use social media to share their
publications on the internet, reaching out to different audiences. In the last few years …

Background Health researchers are increasingly using social media in a professional
capacity, and the applications of social media for health researchers are vast. However …

Background Given the rapid development of social media, effective extraction and analysis
of the contents of social media for health care have attracted widespread attention from …

Background Social media tools have provided health researchers with the opportunity to
engage with communities and groups in a nonconventional manner to recruit participants for …

Background Establishing and promoting connections between health researchers and
health professional clinicians may help translate research evidence to clinical practice …

Background Recruiting an adequate number of participants into medical research studies is
challenging for many researchers. Over the past 10 years, the use of social media websites …

Objectives We sought to investigate whether exposing scientific papers to social media (SM)
has an effect on article downloads and citations. Methods We randomized all International …

Research has revealed both the benefits and harms of social media use, but the public has
very little guidance on how best to use social media to maximize the benefits to their health …

Background The traditional vertical system of sharing information from sources of scientific
authority passed down to the public through local health authorities and clinicians risks …

Purpose To study the effect of a planned social media promotion strategy on access of
online articles in an established academic medical journal. Method This was a single …