Modern Health Journalism and the Impact of Social Media

Abstract

Scholarly journals are hubs of hypotheses, evidence-based data, and practice recommendations that shape health research and practice worldwide. The advancement of science and information technologies has made online accessibility a basic requirement, paving the way for the advent of open access publishing, and more recently, to web-based health journalism. Especially in the time of the current pandemic, health professionals have turned to the internet, and primarily to social media, as a source of rapid information transfer and international communication. Hence, the current pandemic has ushered an era of digital transformation of science, and we attempt to understand and assess the impact of this digitization on modern health journalism.

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“…It has to be noted that patients' preferences should be well recognized because of the variability of social media use regarding age, gender, or education [27]. Furthermore, for quite a while, social media has become a vigorous tool in guiding recognition and credibility in the medical publishing fields [28][29][30]. This has especially accelerated with the pandemic [30].…”

“…Furthermore, for quite a while, social media has become a vigorous tool in guiding recognition and credibility in the medical publishing fields [28][29][30]. This has especially accelerated with the pandemic [30]. It has been observed that various social media channels are increasingly used by scholars to comment on articles [28][29][30].…”

“…This has especially accelerated with the pandemic [30]. It has been observed that various social media channels are increasingly used by scholars to comment on articles [28][29][30]. All these comments are followed and listed by Altmetrics which is basically a metric system [28][29][30].…”

“…It has been observed that various social media channels are increasingly used by scholars to comment on articles [28][29][30]. All these comments are followed and listed by Altmetrics which is basically a metric system [28][29][30]. The Altmetrics, together with conventional citations, promote publications thus may have a role in improving academic development [28][29][30].…”

“…All these comments are followed and listed by Altmetrics which is basically a metric system [28][29][30]. The Altmetrics, together with conventional citations, promote publications thus may have a role in improving academic development [28][29][30].…”