Citation indices for social media articles in urology

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the impact of publications on urological participation in social media (SoMe) by virtue of citations in the urological and non-urological literature. Materials and Methods: On 15 March 2016, a PubMed search was undertaken using the names of the major SoMe platforms in current use and associated with the field of urology. The search term ‘urolog*’ was used to specifically capture articles that could be associated with ‘urology’, ‘urologist’ or ‘urological’. Exclusion criteria for analysis included non-English language articles, articles published for the first time online in any form after 1 March 2015, articles irrelevant to the topic of SoMe, and letters of correspond..