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| Title |
Information seeking for making evidence-informed decisions: a social network analysis on the staff of a public health department in Canada
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-118 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, Maureen Dobbins, Melissa Brouwers, Patricia Wakefield |
| Abstract |
Social network analysis is an approach to study the interactions and exchange of resources among people. It can help understanding the underlying structural and behavioral complexities that influence the process of capacity building towards evidence-informed decision making. A social network analysis was conducted to understand if and how the staff of a public health department in Ontario turn to peers to get help incorporating research evidence into practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 5 | 22% |
| United States | 3 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Turkey | 1 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 13% |
| Scientists | 2 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 171 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 4% |
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 156 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 15% |
| Researcher | 20 | 12% |
| Librarian | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 22% |
| Unknown | 28 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 40 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 20% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 15% |
| Unknown | 34 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2013.
All research outputs
#2,340,602
of 25,016,456 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#925
of 8,482 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,029
of 168,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#11
of 75 outputs
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