scholarly journals EP.WE.372Has COVID-19 affected the attention surgical papers are receiving?

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Baker ◽  
Alice Hanton ◽  
Giordano Perin ◽  
Emma Lumley ◽  
Ashuvini Mahendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
P Value ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Control Dataset ◽  
Opposite Trend ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Citation Metrics

Abstract Aim Unsurprisingly, much of the medical profession has focussed on treating covid-19 over the past year often to the detriment of other pathologies. Engagement with academic literature may follow a similar trend; this paper used standard social media attention and citations metrices to assess whether the pandemic has affected engagement with surgical literature. Method Twitter Mentions and Mendeley Readers Data were retrieved for all papers published in Annals of Surgery, BJS and JAMASurgery between January 2019 and October 2020. The non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare Twitter Mentions and Mendeley Readers for COVID surgical vs non-COVID surgical publications (in 2020) and all surgical papers published before and after the advent of COVID-19. A control database of all papers published in NEJM, BMJ and Lancet over the same period of time was also created. Results There was no difference in Twitter mentions between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 papers (p-value 0.604); however there were significantly more Mendeley readers of COVID-19 papers than non-COVID-19 papers in 2020 (55 vs 5 median readers, p < 0.001). Surgical papers published in 2020 received significantly fewer Twitter mentions than those published in 2019 (15.5 vs 27, p < 0.001). Analysis of the non-surgical control dataset revealed the opposite trend; papers published in 2020 received significantly more attention than those published in 2019 (39 vs 30 median Twitter citations, p < 0.001). Conclusion Surgical papers published during the COVID-19 pandemic received significantly fewer social media mentions. Such reduced visibility has the potential to affect future citation metrics and dissemination of surgical knowledge

scholarly journals EP.TU.157Can Twitter Attention Predict Citation Metrics? A Machine Learning Aided Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Lumley ◽  
Giordano Perin ◽  
Megan Baker ◽  
Alice Hanton ◽  
Ashuvini Mahendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Median Number ◽  
P Value ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Spearman's Rho ◽  
Spearman’S Rho ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Cluster 2

Abstract Aims Surgical journals have developed social media profiles to increase engagement though it remains unclear as to whether social media attention indices for publications act as a surrogate or predictor of traditional citation metrics. This study used machine learning to determine if there is a relationship between Twitter mentions and number of citations for surgical publications. Methods We identified all original research and review papers published in Annals of Surgery, BJS and JAMA Surgery in 2019. Citations data and Twitter mentions were retrieved and the Spearman rank coefficient was used to determine degree of correlation between the two variables. An unsupervised machine-learning hierarchical clustering algorithm was used to define clusters of outlying papers. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the clusters was completed. Results 413 papers were selected. Median number of citations was 7 (IQR 3-14), median number of Twitter mentions was 40 (IQR 15-79). No correlation between Twitter mentions and number of citations was observed (Spearman’s rho 0.076 p-value 0.124). Cluster analysis identified one large (cluster 2, 367/413 papers) and six small clusters. Analysis of cluster 2 revealed a weak but significant correlation between citations and Twitter mentions (Spearman’s rho 0.107 p-value 0.041). The remaining six clusters were characterised by an out of proportion number of Twitter mentions compared to citations or vice versa. Conclusions Twitter mentions should not be used as a surrogate or predictor of traditional citation metrics. In our database the relationship between social media attention and citations was skewed by a small number of outlying papers.

scholarly journals Terrorism before and after 9/11 – a more dangerous world?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205316801773975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meagan Smith ◽  
Sean M. Zeigler
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
New Age ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Opposite Trend ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Shed Light

Was 9/11 the opening salvo in a new age of terrorism? Some argue that this act ushered in a more chaotic world. Others contend an increased focus on terrorism in the past 15 years is the result of conflating terrorist activity with insurgency. We shed light on these claims by analyzing data on domestic and transnational terrorist incidence from 1989 to 2014. The evidence suggests that the years since 9/11 have been different from those preceding them. Once the prevalence of conflicts is accounted for, the post-9/11 era is a significantly less terror prone period than the years before it. A country not suffering civil conflict was upwards of 60 percent more likely to experience terrorism prior to or during the year 2001 than since. However, the opposite trend holds for those countries with a higher proportion of Muslims. Prior to 2001, countries with higher Muslim populations experienced less domestic terrorism. Since 9/11, these countries have experienced significantly more terrorism – both domestic and international – than they had previously.

78 Effects of invitro production on the epigenome and transcriptome of bovine embryos determined through a multi-omics data integration approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
M. Rabaglino ◽  
J. B.-M. Secher ◽  
P. Hyttel ◽  
H. Kadarmideen
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rates ◽  
Enrichment Analysis ◽  
Functional Enrichment Analysis ◽  
Gene Expression Omnibus ◽  
Functional Enrichment ◽  
Receptor Interaction ◽  
P Value ◽  
Kegg Pathways ◽  
The Past ◽  
Before And After

In cattle, ovarian superovulation followed by invivo embryo collection and transfer (MOET), and the invitro production (IVP) of embryos are used all over the world to improve animal genetics. Application of MOET has resulted in the production of billions of healthy animals during the past 40 years, and IVP has evolved and given rise to significant numbers of calves during the past 10 years. Nevertheless, the use of MOET and IVP can affect the embryo epigenome, and therefore its transcriptome, before and after elongation, as shown by different studies. The integration of publicly available epigenome-transcriptome datasets generated by these studies could lead to a robust characterisation of the impacts of the application of MOET and IVP. The goal of this study was to integrate all publicly available data about MOET and IVP embryos to determine temporally differentially methylated regions (DMRs) and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from blastocyst to elongation between IVP and MOET embryos. Datasets were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Accession numbers were (1) for epigenomics: GSE69173, GSE97517, and GSE101895, plus one provided dataset from O’Doherty et al. (2018 BMC Genomics, 19, 438; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4818-3), all hybridized to the EDMA platform GPL18384; (2) for transcriptomics: GSE12327, GSE21030, GSE24596, GSE24936, GSE27817, and GSE40101, all hybridized to the Affymetrix platform GPL2112. Both types of data were analysed with the limma package for R software, and functional enrichment analysis was done with the DAVID database. For DMRs, comparisons between IVP and MOET were made from spherical blastocysts (n=16 per group) on Day 7, to embryos on Day 15, specifically in the trophectoderm (TE) or embryonic disc (ED) regions (n=4 per region and per group). For DEGs, comparisons between IVP and MOET were made from spherical blastocysts (n=9 per group) to elongated blastocysts on Day 13 and embryos undergoing gastrulation on Day 16 (n=6 per group). Considering a P-value <0.05 and fold-change >2, there were 16 672 (TE) and 26 264 (ED) DMRs and 2236 DEGs that temporally differed between IVP and MOET. Most of the identified DMRs were found in intronic regions (around 36%) rather than exonic regions (8%). However, DMRs that were more methylated at IVP compared with MOET contained exons encoding for genes that enriched the Wnt signalling Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway in the ED, and focal adhesion and ECM-receptor interaction KEGG pathways (P<0.05) in the TE. Accordingly, DEGs with lower expression in elongated embryos (Day 13 and Day 16) at IVP as opposed to MOET were mainly associated with these three pathways. In conclusion, this multi-omics analysis demonstrates that even when embryos are produced under different conditions and experiments, the main changes imposed by IVP affected genes involved in embryonic development and adhesion to the endometrium, which could explain the lower survival rates at IVP compared with MOET.

scholarly journals Mapping and Quantification of the Twitter Footprint of Cardiologists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Kalra ◽  
Ashish Kumar ◽  
Amy S Nowacki ◽  
Amna Shahadat ◽  
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
P Value ◽  
The Past ◽  
K Index ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Index 2 ◽  
World Report ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Upper Boundary

Abstract Background The increasing importance placed by medical journals for dissemination of published articles on social media, such as posting Altmetric scores, has further expedited the need for differentiating bona fide science from pseudo-science. The “Kardashian index” (a.k.a., K-index) was suggested, which correlates the citations of a scientist with his/her Twitter followers. Methods and Results From a list of top 100 cardiology hospitals in accordance with the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings, 1,500 cardiologists were selected based on institutional physician profile pages complete with cardiologists’ headshots. The K-index of cardiologists, variables like all time posts, posts for the past 12 months (June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020) etc. of cardiologists were documented and analysed. The K-index of cardiologists in our study was stratified into the following categories (upper boundary inclusive); K-index 0-1 (n = 104); K-index 1-2 (n = 30); K-index 2-3 (n = 24); K-index 3-4 (n = 14); K-index 4-5 (n = 5) and K-index >5 (n = 22) (Table 1). There was no statistically significant difference (P = 0.94) in the citation number across the K-index categories (no consistent pattern observed, median citation ranging from 237 to 610). However, cardiologists with higher K-index categories had a higher number of 12-month posts (median 14 vs. 392 for K-index category 0 – 1 and >5, respectively; P value <0.001). Conclusion Considering no evidence of a difference in the number of citations across K-index categories, the stigma associated with higher K-index needs to be reconsidered.

scholarly journals Media and social media attention to retracted articles according to Altmetric

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0248625
Author(s):  
Stylianos Serghiou ◽  
Rebecca M. Marton ◽  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Citation Count ◽  
P Value ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Retraction Notice ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Frequent Reason

The number of retracted articles has grown fast. However, the extent to which researchers and the public are made adequately aware of these retractions and how the media and social media respond to them remains unknown. Here, we aimed to evaluate the media and social media attention received by retracted articles and assess also the attention they receive post-retraction versus pre-retraction. We downloaded all records of retracted literature maintained by the Retraction Watch Database and originally published between January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2015. For all 3,008 retracted articles with a separate DOI for the original and its retraction, we downloaded the respective Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) (from Altmetric) and citation count (from Crossref), for the original article and its retraction notice on June 6, 2018. We also compared the AAS of a random sample of 572 retracted full journal articles available on PubMed to that of unretracted full articles matched from the same issue and journal. 1,687 (56.1%) of retracted research articles received some amount of Altmetric attention, and 165 (5.5%) were even considered popular (AAS>20). 31 (1.0%) of 2,953 with a record on Crossref received >100 citations by June 6, 2018. Popular articles received substantially more attention than their retraction, even after adjusting for attention received post-retraction (Median difference, 29; 95% CI, 17–61). Unreliable results were the most frequent reason for retraction of popular articles (32; 19%), while fake peer review was the most common reason (421; 15%) for the retraction of other articles. In comparison to matched articles, retracted articles tended to receive more Altmetric attention (23/31 matched groups; P-value, 0.01), even after adjusting for attention received post-retraction. Our findings reveal that retracted articles may receive high attention from media and social media and that for popular articles, pre-retraction attention far outweighs post-retraction attention.

Abstract 13249: Temporal Trends in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Bystander CPR and Defibrillation Following Implementation of Citizen Responder Programs

Circulation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 144 (Suppl_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Kollander Jakobsen ◽  
Sidsel Gamborg Moeller ◽  
Kristian Bundgaard Ringgren ◽  
Amalie Lykkemark Moeller ◽  
Linn Andelius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
P Value ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Residential Locations ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Bystander Cpr ◽  
Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Introduction: In Denmark, survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has increased markedly in the past years, from 3.9% in 2001 to 15.8% in 2019. Still, bystander defibrillation remains low, especially for OHCAs in residential areas. To improve bystander defibrillation, smartphone activated Citizen Responder (CR) Programs have expanded to nationwide coverage in Denmark during September 2017 to May 2020. Hypothesis: Implementation of CR programs in Denmark was associated with increased bystander CPR and defibrillation. Methods: We conducted an observational study of 15,308 OHCAs from the Danish Cardiac Arrest Registry from 2016-2019. App-based CR programs were implemented in four out of five Danish regions during the study period. All OHCAs were divided into two groups according to the date of CR implementation (“before” and “after CR” implementation). The groups were compared focusing on bystander defibrillation, bystander CPR and 30-day survival. Results: “Before CR” included 8,819 OHCAs and the “after CR” 6,489 OHCAs. The proportion of bystander CPR was 77.9% and 78.0% (p-value 0.91) for the before -and after CR implementation groups, respectively. The corresponding numbers for bystander defibrillation were 7.4% and 9.5% (p-value < 0.001), respectively. In residential OHCA, bystander defibrillation went from 4.0% to 6.3% (p-value<0.001) in the before -and after group respectively. In public, bystander defibrillation was 19.3% and 22.2% (p-value 0.05) in the groups respectively. 30-day survival was 12.7% before and 13.1% after CR implementation (p-value 0.49). Conclusion: We found no changes in bystander CPR or 30-day survival following implementation of CR programs in Denmark, but a significant increase in bystander defibrillation for all OHCAs. Importantly bystander defibrillation also increased significantly in residential locations, where the majority of OHCAs occur and where bystander defibrillation has remained low for decades.

scholarly journals The Effect of Milieu Therapy towards Knowledge of Caregivers and Relaps Response Patients Mental Disorders in Hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurdiana Siahaan ◽  
Omi Haryati ◽  
Nur Halimah
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Support System ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Care Patient ◽  
P Value ◽  
Milieu Therapy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After

Patients with mental disorder need the regularly strong support system from their surroundings, one of the support system that most closely is the family including the parents and other people that live together with the clients. Knowledge of Caregivers about carrying patients with mental disorders is very important. Sometimes they faced some troubles because lack of knowledge how to care patient with the mental disorder,  This research aim is to know the effectiveness of milieu therapy toward Caregivers knowledge, attitudes, and the response of the recurrence for patients with mental disorder. The research methodology used a quasi-experiment pretest and posttest design.  Using by purposive sampling  35 respondents were involved in this study. The research took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The results of research is that the knowledge of caregiver before and after the intervention of the very means where the P value, 0.000, There is no difference about attitude  caregivers before and after the intervention towards occurrence with P value is 0,402, There is a difference before and after intervention of caregiver to the patient for doing milieu therapy with p-value 0.000. Conclusion: Milieu therapy made the patient with mental disorder having activities in their daily living, so there is no time for thinking the past days that made recurrence.

The Diagnosis of Viral Disease by Electron Microscopy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
William B. McCombs ◽  
Cameron E. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Viral Pathogens ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
The Past

Recent years have brought a reversal in the attitude of the medical profession toward the diagnosis of viral infections. Identification of bacterial pathogens was formerly thought to be faster than identification of viral pathogens. Viral identification was dismissed as being of academic interest or for confirming the presence of an epidemic, because the patient would recover or die before this could be accomplished. In the past 10 years, the goal of virologists has been to present the clinician with a viral identification in a matter of hours. This fast diagnosis has the potential for shortening the patient's hospital stay and preventing the administering of toxic and/or expensive antibiotics of no benefit to the patient.

Hubungan Alexithymia dengan Kecanduan Media Sosial pada Remaja di Jakarta Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Yunita Mansyah Lestari ◽  
Suzy Yusna Dewi ◽  
Aulia Chairani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
P Value ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Toronto Alexithymia Scale ◽  
Social Media Addiction ◽  
Consecutive Sampling ◽  
Tas 20

ABSTRAK   Alexithymia ditandai dengan ketidakmampuan dalam mengenali dan mengekpresikan emosi serta pemikiran yang berorientasi eksternal sehingga mereka memiliki hubungan interpersonal yang buruk. Remaja dengan alexithymia cenderung menjadi kecanduan media sosial.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara Alexithymia terhadap kecanduan media sosial pada remaja di Jakarta Selatan. Subjek penelitian adalah remaja yang berusia 13-19 tahun dan tinggal di Jakarta selatan. Pengambilan data menggunakan metode consecutive sampling dan snowball sampling dengan menyebar kuesioner menggunakan link googleform. Jumlah subjek penelitian sebanyak 207 orang (41 = laki-laki, 166 = perempuan). Skala yang digunakan adalah Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) dan Social Media Disorder (SMD). Analisa data menggunakan metode chi-square pada SPSS 25. Hasil penelitian didapatkan 85 orang mengalami alexithymia, 88 mengalami kecanduan dan 62 orang mengalami alexithymia dan kecanduan media sosial. p-value didapatkan 0,000. Hal ini berarti terdapat hubungan antara Alexithymia dengan Kecanduan Media Sosial pada remaja di Jakarta Selatan. Kata Kunci :Alexithymia, Kecanduan Media Sosial, Remaja     ABSTRACT   Alexithymia is characterized by an inability to recognize and express emotions and have external oriented thoughts so that they have poor interpersonal relationships. Teenagers with alexithymial tend to become addicted to social media. This study aims to determine the relationship between Alexithymia towards social media addiction in adolescents in South Jakarta. The research subjects were adolescents aged 13-19 years and lived in south Jakarta. Retrieval of the data was using consecutive sampling and snowball sampling method by distributing questionnaires using the googleform link. The number of research subjects was 207 people (41 = men, 166 = women). The scale was used is the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and Social Media Disorder (SMD). Data analysis using the chi-square method in SPSS 25. The results showed that 85 people had alexithymia, 88 were addicted and 62 people had alexithymia and were addicted to social media. p-value obtained is 0,000. This means that there is a relationship between Alexithymia and Social Media Addiction in adolescents in South Jakarta. Keyword : Adolescents, Alexithymia, Social Media Addiction

Proving God's Existence? A Reassessment of al-Rāzī’s Arguments for the Existence of the Creator

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah C. Erlwein
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Thematic Context

Arguments for God's existence, it has often been argued in the secondary academic literature, form an essential part of classical Islamic theology (ʿilm al-kalām) and philosophy (falsafa). In the past decades, numerous scholars have dealt with what could be termed the Islamic discourse on arguments for God's existence, and have commonly analysed these arguments making recourse to Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) categorisation of such arguments as cosmological, teleological, or ontological. The great Ashʿarī theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) is, unsurprisingly, seen as no exception to this: he, too, has been regarded as a participant in the aforementioned discourse, and in several of his major kalām works he introduces four methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’. In this article, I will, however, argue that al-Rāzī had no concern for proving God's existence; the arguments in his kalām works, which, in the secondary academic literature, have been described as seeking to prove that God exists, it shall be suggested, serve a different purpose. This shall become clear when al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Qur'an, al-Tafsīr al-kabīr, is taken into account. Previous studies of al-Rāzī’s (alleged) arguments for God's existence have only focused on his kalām works proper, however, in the Tafsīr al-Rāzī not only presents the very same four kalām methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’ and stresses that they originate in Qur'anic forms of argumentation, but he also places them in a thematic context which, in his theological works, is oftentimes lacking. This article therefore clarifies the objective underlying al-Rāzī’s arguments for the existence of the creator and explains their significance in his broader theological thought.

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