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MP22: The impact of collaborative social media promotion on the dissemination of CJEM articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2017

S. Huang*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
K. Milne
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
L.J. Martin
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
C. Bond
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
R. Mohindra
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
C. Yeh
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
A. Chin
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
W.B. Sanderson
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
H. Murray
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
T.M. Chan
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
B. Thoma
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, North York, ON
*
*Corresponding authors

Abstract

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Introduction: The CJEM Social Media Team was created in 2014 to assist the journal with the dissemination of its research online. It consists of two Social Media Editors (Junior and Senior) and a team of volunteer medical students and residents to assist their work. Collaborative promotional agreements were developed to promote CJEM articles on the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) podcast through the ‘Hot off the Press’ (HOP) series and the CanadiEM blog through an infographic series. Methods:CJEM papers were selected for promotion by the Team based on their perceived interest to the online community of emergency physicians. Altmetric scores, which are a measure of online dissemination derived from a weighted algorithm of social media metrics, were collated for articles promoted using the SGEM HOP or CanadiEM blogs. A control group was created using the articles with the top two Altmetric scores in each CJEM issue in 2015 and 2016. Erratum, Letters, and articles written by the social media editors were excluded from the control groups. The success of the social media promotion was quantified through the measurement of Altmetric scores as of January 1, 2017. Unpaired two-tailed t-tests with unequal variance were used to test for significant differences. Results: 106 and 82 eligible articles were published in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Four articles in 2015 and two articles in 2016 were excluded from the control groups because they were written by the social media editors. SGEM HOP podcasts promoted one article in 2015 and five articles in 2016. CanadiEM infographics promoted three articles in 2015 and eight articles in 2016. No articles were promoted in both series. The average Altmetric score was higher for SGEM HOP (61.0) than CanadiEM Infographics (31.5, p<0.04), 2015 controls (15.8, p<0.01), and 2016 controls (13.6, p<0.01). The average Altmetric score for CanadiEM Infographics was higher than 2015 controls (p<0.04) and 2016 controls (p<0.02). There was no significant difference between the control groups. Conclusion: The results suggest that collaborating with established social media websites to promote CJEM articles using podcasts and infographics increases their social media dissemination. Given the nonrandomized design of these results, causative conclusions cannot be drawn. A randomized study of the impact of social media promotion on readership is underway.

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Moderated Poster Presentations
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Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2017