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Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research on Social Media

Annals of Surgery · December 2017

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Reports a prospective case-control crossover study at Annals of Surgery comparing tweets of articles with and without a visual abstract. Tweets with visual abstracts attracted markedly more impressions, retweets and article visits, and the paper helped popularise visual abstracts across medical journals.

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Ibrahim AM, Lillemoe KD, Klingensmith ME, Dimick JB. Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research on Social Media. Annals of Surgery. 2017;266(6):e46-e48. doi:10.1097/sla.0000000000002277

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