Ghosh, P., Schwartz, G., & Narouze, S. (2021). Twitter as a powerful tool for communication between pain physicians during COVID-19 pandemic. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 46(2), 187-188. https://rapm.bmj.com/content/46/2/187.abstract

Twitter as a powerful tool for communication between pain physicians during COVID-19 pandemic

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine/European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy (ASRA/ESRA) COVID-19 pain recommendations were initially tweeted and gained recognition. Two weeks after the recommendations were tweeted, it became an official source of COVID-19 recommendations for health officials worldwide. 

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- "Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic" - "Twitter as a powerful tool for communication between pain physicians during COVID-19 pandemic" - "A scientometric overview of CORD-19" - "Causal modeling of twitter activity during covid-19" - "Using altmetrics for detecting impactful research in quasi-zero-day time-windows: the case of COVID-19" - "COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts"

Literature on COVID-19 Research on Twitter

- There is a parallel relationship between COVID-19-related publications and Twitter mentions where Twitter discussion increases with more research about COVID-19 being published
- Tweets from users of academic backgrounds are seen as more credible and hence receive more attention and more retweets 
- Research supports the claim that Twitter engagement and discussion of COVID-19-related research can be helpful in determining perceptions around the pandemic 

Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic

- Analyzed COVID-19 and coronavirus research publications in the CORD-19 database
- The dataset includes publications beyond COVID-19 and coronavirus research, but compared to Web of Science, it is evident that CORD-19 still contains the majority of COVID-19 and coronavirus-related literature 
- Topic modeling demonstrated that research follows specific virus outbreaks and have temporal patterns 
- Citation network clustering showed that there are two significant citation clusters – one that is mainly focused on COVID-19 and another on molecular biology 
- Looking at Altmetric data, it can be concluded that Twitter is the most active social media in terms of mentioning CORD-19 publications, especially regarding most recent literature on COVID-19 

A scientometric overview of CORD-19

- Interested in studying what communication mediums are most effective for early COVID-19 research and communication and the extent to which altmetric data can assess the impact of scientific research on COVID-19
- Studied 212 scientific publications on COVID-19 published between January 15 and February 24, 2020
- Found a moderate correlation between citation count and citations and mentions on social media
- Twitter, Facebook, news and blogs, and citations in academic publications are all sources of scholarly communication about COVID-19

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