Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019
Background: Rheumatology journals are exploring social media presence, though currently less than a third have dedicated social media editors. Methods: A survey was conducted among the attendees of the Indian Rheumatology Association annual meet 2019 held at Puducherry, to assess the attitudes and...
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| description | Background: Rheumatology journals are exploring social media presence, though currently less than a third have dedicated social media editors.
Methods: A survey was conducted among the attendees of the Indian Rheumatology Association annual meet 2019 held at Puducherry, to assess the attitudes and perceptions of a target audience.
Results: There were 111 respondents, 90 practicing rheumatology and 21 from allied fields. Around threequarters (76.6%) have never subscribed to hard copies of any journal and 65% followed at least one medical journal on at least one social media platform; 87% preferred visual cues for learning and 95% felt the need for visual abstracts to promote articles on social media. Two-thirds (64%) felt that Altmetrics® might reflect the impact of an article better than the number of times it is cited.
Conclusion: Thus, the survey strengthened the felt need of rheumatology journals to have a presence on the social media. This presence ought to be supported by a strategy, including the active use of visual abstracts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-36f9123cf8d2495bb99d47aa844837da2025-02-03T00:11:59ZengSAGE PublishingIndian Journal of Rheumatology0973-36980973-37012020-01-0115317117410.4103/injr.injr_15_20Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019Sakir AhmedLatika GuptaBackground: Rheumatology journals are exploring social media presence, though currently less than a third have dedicated social media editors. Methods: A survey was conducted among the attendees of the Indian Rheumatology Association annual meet 2019 held at Puducherry, to assess the attitudes and perceptions of a target audience. Results: There were 111 respondents, 90 practicing rheumatology and 21 from allied fields. Around threequarters (76.6%) have never subscribed to hard copies of any journal and 65% followed at least one medical journal on at least one social media platform; 87% preferred visual cues for learning and 95% felt the need for visual abstracts to promote articles on social media. Two-thirds (64%) felt that Altmetrics® might reflect the impact of an article better than the number of times it is cited. Conclusion: Thus, the survey strengthened the felt need of rheumatology journals to have a presence on the social media. This presence ought to be supported by a strategy, including the active use of visual abstracts.http://www.indianjrheumatol.com/article.asp?issn=0973-3698;year=2020;volume=15;issue=3;spage=171;epage=174;aulast=Ahmedattitudecongressindian rheumatology associationrheumatology journalssocial mediasocial networking |
| spellingShingle | Sakir Ahmed Latika Gupta Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 Indian Journal of Rheumatology attitude congress indian rheumatology association rheumatology journals social media social networking |
| title | Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 |
| title_full | Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 |
| title_fullStr | Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 |
| title_short | Perception about social media use by rheumatology journals: Survey among the attendees of IRACON 2019 |
| title_sort | perception about social media use by rheumatology journals survey among the attendees of iracon 2019 |
| topic | attitude congress indian rheumatology association rheumatology journals social media social networking |
| url | http://www.indianjrheumatol.com/article.asp?issn=0973-3698;year=2020;volume=15;issue=3;spage=171;epage=174;aulast=Ahmed |
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