Using social media to share your radiology research: How effective is a blog post?

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 760-765

  Hoang, Jenny K ^a   McCall, Jonathan ^b   Dixon, Andrew F ^c   Fitzgerald, Ryan T ^d   Gaillard, Frank ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ALFRED HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^e ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

altmetrics; education; peer reviewed literature; Social media

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOLUME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RADIOLOGY; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84937526262     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2015.03.048     Document Type: Article

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