Social Media

"Social Media" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Platforms that provide the ability and tools to create and publish information accessed via the INTERNET. Generally these platforms have three characteristics with content user generated, high degree of interaction between creator and viewer, and easily integrated with other sites.

Descriptor ID	D061108
MeSH Number(s)	L01.224.230.110.500.750
Concept/Terms	Social Media Social Media Media, Social Social Medium Mediums, Social Social Mediums Twitter Messaging Twitter Messaging Messaging, Twitter Web 2.0 Web 2.0 2.0s, Web Web 2.0s

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Social Media".

Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Computing Methodologies [L01.224]
Computer Systems [L01.224.230]
Computer Communication Networks [L01.224.230.110]
Internet [L01.224.230.110.500]
Social Media [L01.224.230.110.500.750]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Media" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Media" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 55 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2012	0	1	1
2013	0	1	1
2014	2	0	2
2015	3	0	3
2016	2	0	2
2017	2	2	4
2018	3	0	3
2019	4	2	6
2020	7	1	8
2021	10	1	11
2022	8	0	8
2023	4	1	5
2024	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Social Media" by people in Profiles.

Tarawneh O, Narayanan R, Dalton J, Oris RJ, Brush P, Opara O, Trenchfield D, Lee Y, Vadhera A, Glover A, Pineda N, Jain P, Kim A, Kurd MF, Kaye ID, Canseco JA, Hilibrand AS, Vaccaro AR, Kepler CK, Schroeder GD. Role of Altmetric Attention Scores in Evaluating the Influence of Spine Surgery Research. Clin Spine Surg. 2025 Aug 01; 38(7):E412-E418.

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Deutsch AJ, Alvarez A, Balint S, Pappal RD, Roseen S, Sun WW, Warren J, Stanton K, Agarwal AK. #StopTheStigmaEM: Building a social media-based movement to support emergency medicine mental health. Acad Emerg Med. 2024 06; 31(6):617-620.

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Ahmed S, Farooqui AJ, Pradhan NA, Zehra N, Majid H, Jafri L, Khan AH. Assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of osteoporosis among Pakistani women: A national social-media based survey. PLoS One. 2023; 18(11):e0288057.

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Wawrzynski SE, Cloyes KG, Arasteh K, Guo JW, Linder L, Reblin M, Alderfer MA. Online Experiences, Internet-Fostered Connection, Resilience, and Adjustment Among Adolescent Siblings of Children With Cancer. Cancer Nurs. 2025 Jan-Feb 01; 48(1):E1-E8.

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Pakravan P, Gunawardene AN, Lai J, Sridhar J, Cavuoto KM. What Are Patients Asking Online About Strabismus? An Analysis of the Strabismus Subreddit. J Binocul Vis Ocul Motil. 2023 Oct 02; 73(4):160-164.

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Bellam K, Yakkanti R, Amaya A, Qiu MF, Conte B, Aiyer A. Orthopedic Surgery Residencies: The Leap to Social Media. Orthopedics. 2023 Sep-Oct; 46(5):e281-e286.

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El Naamani K, Yudkoff CJ, Carreras A, Abbas R, Sioutas GS, Amllay A, Tjoumakaris SI, Gooch MR, Herial N, Rosenwasser RH, Jabbour P. Social Media and Neurosurgery: Insights from the Top 100 Neurosurgery Influencers on Twitter. World Neurosurg. 2023 03; 171:e422-e431.

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Bellamy JL, Weisz KM, Gold PA, Howell B, Willinger ML, Whitmarsh-Brown MA, Tucker K, Mont MA. Social Media Is the Fastest Way to Disseminate Research and It's Here to Stay. J Arthroplasty. 2022 11; 37(11):2115.

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Djulbegovic M, Kalahasty K, Sridhar J. Altmetric Attention Scores in Ophthalmology Journals-Reply. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2022 10 01; 140(10):1028-1029.

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Rudisill SS, Saleh NZ, Hornung AL, Zbeidi S, Ali RM, Siyaji ZK, Ahn J, Nolte MT, Lopez GD, Sayari AJ. YouTube as a source of information on pediatric scoliosis: a reliability and educational quality analysis. Spine Deform. 2023 01; 11(1):3-9.

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