Tweeting biomedicine: an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

Data collected by social media platforms have recently been introduced as a new source for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation-based indicators. Data generated from social media activities related to scholarly content can be used to reflect broad types of impact. This paper aims to provide systematic evidence regarding how often Twitter is used to diffuse journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences. The analysis is based on a set of 1.4 million documents covered by both PubMed and Web of Science (WoS) and published between 2010 and 2012. The number of tweets containing links to these documents was analyzed to evaluate the degree to which certain journals, disciplines, and specialties were represented on Twitter. It is shown that, with less than 10% of PubMed articles mentioned on Twitter, its uptake is low in general. The relationship between tweets and WoS citations was examined for each document at the level of journals and specialties. The results show that tweeting behavior varies between journals and specialties and correlations between tweets and citations are low, implying that impact metrics based on tweets are different from those based on citations. A framework utilizing the coverage of articles and the correlation between Twitter mentions and citations is proposed to facilitate the evaluation of novel social-media based metrics and to shed light on the question in how far the number of tweets is a valid metric to measure research impact.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, 5 table

Determinants of health tourism competitiveness: An Alpine case study

Health tourism is of growing interest for tourism destinations and serves as a key theme to add value and to differentiate destinations’ tourism product and service bundles. In tourism research recent studies underline the importance of various forms of health tourism in the Alps. However, due to the fact that health tourism definitions vary greatly amongst academics one can hardly assess the determinants of competitiveness of health tourism products or destinations. This paper aims to investigate, both, destination management organizations’ CEO’s and health tourism experts’ perceptions of health tourism competitiveness in alpine tourism. Smeral’s (1998) adaptation of Porter’s model of national competitiveness (Porter, 1990) for serves as a framework for the analysis. The authors conducted a case study of health tourism in alpine countries gathering quantitative and qualitative data. The study was conducted in the German-speaking alpine regions, in Austria, Northern Italy, Germany and Switzerland .The results revealed that factor and demand conditions are the most relevant determinants of health tourism competitiveness and that health tourism is moving towards more specialized but narrow markets such as medical wellness. Furthermore, the results indicated that the main strength of health tourism for the Alps is the wide area of (medical) prevention. Therefore, destinations must focus on the sustainable management of their natural key resources which are needed to create competitive tourism products in the future

Empirical insights into innovation practices as crises response of ski destinations after the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic

The tourism industry is very vulnerable and is strongly affected by the pandemic. Thus, it requires innovative solutions to cope with and recover from the crisis. The study aims at gaining empirical insights into innovation behavior as means to crisis response of ski destinations. For this purpose, we conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders of ski destinations during the re-start of tourism after the first lockdown in Austria. We further explore how ski destinations develop and implement various types of innovations as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and reveal that the COVID-19 crisis improves coopetition among stakeholders. The research suggests that the COVID-19 crisis has reinforced innovation activities and the interviews demonstrate that the role of DMOs has become even more important for destination recovery

The World Will Little Note, nor Long Remember What We Say Here...

The reproduction is of a cartoon featuring a Richard M. Nixon/Watergate theme. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is shown dumping reels of tape into a shredder.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/2414/thumbnail.jp

Sorry Abe

Reproduction of a newspaper cartoon by Mike Peters, originally published in the Dayton Daily News, 2004. Depicts silhouettes of A. Lincoln and other individuals.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/2509/thumbnail.jp