From Optional to Default - Enhancing Article Viewership Through X (Formerly Twitter) Posting

Atsushi Mizuno; Daisuke Yoneoka; Takuya Kishi; Kenya Kusunose; Chisa Matsumoto; Yuki Sahashi; Mari Ishida; Shoji Sanada; Memori Fukuda; Tadafumi Sugimoto; Miki Hirano; Masataka Sata; Toshihisa Anzai; Koichi Node

doi:10.1253/circrep.CR-24-0074

From Optional to Default - Enhancing Article Viewership Through X (Formerly Twitter) Posting

Circ Rep. 2024 Aug 1;6(9):389-394. doi: 10.1253/circrep.CR-24-0074. eCollection 2024 Sep 10.

Authors

Atsushi Mizuno^{1

2

3}, Daisuke Yoneoka⁴, Takuya Kishi^{3

5}, Kenya Kusunose⁶, Chisa Matsumoto^{3

7}, Yuki Sahashi^{3

8

9}, Mari Ishida^{3

10}, Shoji Sanada^{3

11}, Memori Fukuda^{3

12}, Tadafumi Sugimoto^{3

13}, Miki Hirano^{3

14}, Masataka Sata¹⁵, Toshihisa Anzai¹⁶, Koichi Node^{3

17}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, St. Luke's International Hospital Tokyo Japan.
² Medical quality management office, St. Luke's International Hospital Tokyo Japan.
³ Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan.
⁴ Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases Tokyo Japan.
⁵ Department of Graduate School of Medicine (Cardiology), International University of Health and Welfare Fukuoka Japan.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology, and Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus Okinawa Japan.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Center for Health Surveillance & Preventive Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Tokyo Japan.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA USA.
⁹ Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Gifu Japan.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.
¹¹ Clinical and Translational Research Center, Kobe University Hospital Kobe Japan.
¹² Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.
¹³ Department of Cardiology, Nagoya City University Mirai Kousei Hospital Nagoya Japan.
¹⁴ Department of Nursing, Kameda Medical Center Chiba Japan.
¹⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital Tokushima Japan.
¹⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
¹⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University Saga Japan.

Abstract

Background: The influence of a change to a default X summary posting strategy on article viewership has not been investigated.

Methods and results: We conducted a retrospective analysis of X-posting rates and journal viewership data for both the Circulation Journal and Circulation Reports from April 2022 to September 2023. Following protocol modifications in March 2023, there was a notable increase in the X-posting rate from 12.4% to 61.7%, along with an uptick in median access counts to article pages within 30 days, from 175 to 231.5.

Conclusions: Trend analysis of journal viewership after a default X-posting strategy revealed an increase in viewer access.

Keywords: Article viewership; Default; X (formerly Twitter).