Social media and online attention as an early measure of the impact of research in solid organ transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 490-496

  Knight, Simon R ^a,b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Impact; Internet; Social media; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDLINE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84907597233     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000307     Document Type: Article

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