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    Gender-related and geographic trends in interactions between radiotherapy professionals on Twitter

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    Berger, T.
    Payan, N.
    Fleury, E.
    Davey, A.
    Bryce-Atkinson, Abigail
    Vasquez Osorio, Eliana
    Yang, Z.
    McMullan, T.
    Shelley, L. E. A.
    Gasnier, A.
    Bertholet, J.
    Aznar, Marianne Camille
    Nailon, W. H.
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    Department of Oncology Physics, Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    Issue Date
    2022
    
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    Background and purpose: Twitter presence in academia has been linked to greater research impact which influences career progression. The purpose of this study was to analyse Twitter activity of the radiotherapy community around ESTRO congresses with a focus on gender-related and geographic trends. Materials and methods: Tweets, re-tweets and replies, here designated as interactions, around the ESTRO congresses held in 2012-2021 were collected. Twitter activity was analysed temporally and, for the period 2016-2021, the geographical span of the ESTRO Twitter network was studied. Tweets and Twitter users collated during the 10 years analysed were ranked based on number of 'likes', 're-tweets' and followers, considered as indicators of leadership/influence. Gender representation was assessed for the top-end percentiles. Results: Twitter activity around ESTRO congresses was multiplied by 60 in 6 years growing from 150 interactions in 2012 to a peak of 9097 in 2018. In 2020, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, activity dropped by 60 % to reach 2945 interactions and recovered to half the pre-pandemic level in 2021. Europe, North America and Oceania were strongly connected and remained the main contributors. While overall, 58 % of accounts were owned by men, this proportion increased towards top liked/re-tweeted tweets and most-followed profiles to reach up to 84 % in the top-percentiles. Conclusion: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Twitter activity around ESTRO congresses substantially decreased. Men were over-represented on the platform and in most popular tweets and influential accounts. Given the increasing importance of social media presence in academia the gender-based biases observed may help in understanding the gender gap in career progression
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    Berger T, Payan N, Fleury E, Davey A, Bryce-Atkinson A, Vasquez Osorio E, et al. Gender-related and geographic trends in interactions between radiotherapy professionals on Twitter. Physics and imaging in radiation oncology. 2022 Oct;24:129-35. PubMed PMID: 36439328. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC9696828. Epub 2022/11/29. eng.
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    Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10541/625874
    DOI
    10.1016/j.phro.2022.11.002
    PubMed ID
    36439328
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    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2022.11.002
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    10.1016/j.phro.2022.11.002
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