Social Media Stats for Palliative Care Journals 2020

by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)Over the past two years I have been working to increase the profile of theJournal of Pain and Symptom Management as the associate editor of social media. In that time, I have come to make a few observations on the current state of social media use by palliative care journals and researchers that I would like to share with you dear readers along with some statistics. Could I make all of this into a paper, published in one of said journals? Possibly. But curiously enough I am looking to effect positive change quickly, so for now we will go with a blog, some Tweet threads and data visualizations. The article can come later!Over time I will be looking at the social media ecosystem including research organizations, researchers and academic programs, but today the focus will be on the journals.First off, do you follow any of the main palliative care journals on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram? How many are there even to follow?I will tell you it is not necessarily easy to find them. No unified place to find them all, no organizing hashtag that is in all of the bios. I have been following 14 Twitter accounts, 10 Facebook Pages, and 3 Instagram accounts for palliative care journals. And so far to my knowledge, there are none on Snapchat nor TikTok. I have not been collecting data on podcasts nor YouTube either, but those areas are good for exploration. If I am missing any or my stats are off, please let me know.If you want to start following any of t...
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