Abstract
Social media, especially Twitter, crept into academic fields and have become a vital part of all the medical fields and journals.1 Medical journals have been increasingly using Twitter to disseminate their contents to attract a wider readership. The Transplantation Journal, that started tweeting from 2015 to “improve engagement with readership and connect with the authors”, showed that the papers that were tweeted were three times more likely to be downloaded than the non-tweeted ones (p<0.001).Some of the journals started new initiatives to improve their interactions with readers in social media like podcasts, video abstracts and reviews, and Visual Abstracts (VA). VA is a form of graphical abstract used by medical journals. VA was introduced in Annals of Surgery in July 2016.4 Other forms of graphical abstracts in the field of chemistry had appeared as early as 1976. VA is a visual summary of a research manuscript. It consists of a single-page poster that is simple, eye-catching and summarizes the background, methodology, results, and conclusion of the study. These are published or tweeted for improved dissemination of the paper, for deeper engagement of scientists, and to influence busy readers.
Highlights
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Some of the journals started new initiatives to improve their interactions with readers in social media
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Summary
EDEITDOITROIARLISAoLcial media, especially Twitter, crept into academic fields and have become a vital part of all the medical ANdaAbNviedanrbvtBieinsarethBmiasaedehmunfteaionrtedeglaBiundatnrtsatgraMseBainncmnatedeeMsatdnnjowiteecutdwiardinliectaJrhalosrlre.u1eJaraModdneueerarrsdlsnhih–ciapiaplT.l1–o,ja2onTTuBdohrenecBaooTlenrsrnahoNnearcsovptNtelwatobonietttehaBtntoietohi!BnneceJar!oeuauthsrinonargsl,l”yt,husahstiosnwtgaerTdtewdtihttatwetretehtoteindpgiassfpreeoVmrmsi-ntV2haV0at-e1It 5VtwhtIeeorire“citmownpetreeotnvetdes were three times more likely to be downloaded than the non-tweeted ones (p
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