Social Media in Neurosurgery: Using ResearchGate.

摘要: Background Neurosurgery is a unique field, which would benefit greatly from increased global collaboration, furthering research efforts. ResearchGate social media platform geared toward scientists and researchers. Objective This study evaluated the use of for neurosurgical collaboration compared score with more classic bibliometrics. unifying that can strengthen (e.g., data sharing) in neurosurgery community. Methods Publicly available metrics on 3718 clinical faculty residents Canada United States were obtained American Association Neurological Surgeons Web site. The following collected: program name, clinician sex, attending (yes or no), resident postgraduate year (if resident), profile no). its components h index excluding self-citations collected. Fellows not included. Results Of total individuals included, 1338 (36.0%) present ResearchGate, comprising 181 women (13.5%) 1157 men (86.5%). Women similar proportions (33.8% 36.3% men) (χ2 [1, N = 3718] = 1.26; P = 0.26). More than (62.4%) 11.42; 0.001). A strong positive monotonic correlation between was shown (rs [1292] = 0.93; P Conclusions may be useful to increase networking collaboration. Its novel bibliometrics are strongly correlated platforms.