2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.654481
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Implications of Twitter in Health-Related Research: A Landscape Analysis of the Scientific Literature

Abstract: Background: Twitter, representing a big social media network, is broadly used for the communication of health-related information. In this work, we aimed to identify and analyze the scientific literature on Twitter use in context of health by utilizing a bibliometric approach, in order to obtain quantitative information on dominant research topics, trending themes, key publications, scientific institutions, and prolific researchers who contributed to this scientific area.Methods: Web of Science electronic data… Show more

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“…Bibliometric analysis, a well-established research method using mathematical and statistical approaches, has been commonly used for revealing pervious research efforts. It is also a feasible tool to comprehensively evaluate the research advances of a certain scientific area quantitatively and qualitatively, and could predict the trends and hotspots in a specific field through information visualization ( 40 , 46 , 47 ). In the field of cell biology, mechanism of cell death has always been a hot topic in life science research for decades.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bibliometric analysis, a well-established research method using mathematical and statistical approaches, has been commonly used for revealing pervious research efforts. It is also a feasible tool to comprehensively evaluate the research advances of a certain scientific area quantitatively and qualitatively, and could predict the trends and hotspots in a specific field through information visualization ( 40 , 46 , 47 ). In the field of cell biology, mechanism of cell death has always been a hot topic in life science research for decades.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, it is commonly accepted that different databases have different properties such as document type marking, citations counting, and export formats, thus incorporation analysis of multiple databases may not the optimal choice for bibliometric studies ( 4 ). Most of previous studies were only based one database, among which WoSCC was the most commonly used one ( 32 , 81 ). Secondly, only studies published in English were enrolled, which means several potential studies with other languages could be missed.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bibliometrics is a subject which uses mathematical and statistical methods to quantitatively analyze information[18] [19]. It is a comprehensive knowledge system which integrates mathematics, statistics and philology that pays attention to quanti cation [20] [21].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%