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    "pk": 8625,
    "title": "The Social Media Index: Measuring the Impact of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Websites",
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    "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe number of educational resources created for emergency medicine and criticalcare (EMCC) that incorporate social media has increased dramatically. With no way to assess theirimpact or quality, it is challenging for educators to receive scholarly credit and for learners to identifyrespected resources. The Social Media index (SMi) was developed to help address this.\nMethods: \nWe used data from social media platforms (Google PageRanks, Alexa Ranks, FacebookLikes, Twitter Followers, and Google+ Followers) for EMCC blogs and podcasts to derive threenormalized (ordinal, logarithmic, and raw) formulas. The most statistically robust formula wasassessed for 1) temporal stability using repeated measures and website age, and 2) correlationwith impact by applying it to EMCC journals and measuring the correlation with known journalimpact metrics.\nResults: \nThe logarithmic version of the SMi containing four metrics was the most statistically robust.It correlated significantly with website age (Spearman r=0.372; p<0.001) and repeated measuresthrough seven months (r=0.929; p<0.001). When applied to EMCC journals, it correlated significantlywith all impact metrics except number of articles published. The strongest correlations were seenwith the Immediacy Index (r=0.609; p<0.001) and Article Influence Score (r=0.608; p<0.001).\nConclusion: \nThe SMi’s temporal stability and correlation with journal impact factors suggests thatit may be a stable indicator of impact for medical education websites. Further study is needed todetermine whether impact correlates with quality and how learners and educators can best utilizethis tool. [West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(2):242–249.]\nDOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.1.24860",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Online medical education, medical education, social media, impact factor, blogs, podcasts"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Technology in Emergency Care",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7t7777m7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Brent",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thoma",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Learning Laboratory and Division of Medical Simulation, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; University of Saskatchewan, Emergency Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative, San Francisco, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jason",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Sanders",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative, San Francisco, California; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michelle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative, San Francisco, California; University of California, San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Quinten",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Paterson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jordon",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Steeg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Teresa",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Chan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative, San Francisco, California; McMaster University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-11-27T04:03:10Z",
    "date_accepted": "2014-11-27T04:03:10Z",
    "date_published": "2015-03-17T19:28:51Z",
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