Quantifying the Twitter Influence of Third Party Commercial Entities versus Healthcare Providers in Thirteen Medical Conferences from 2011 – 2013

• Tejas Desai ,

  * E-mail: tejas.p.desai@gmail.com

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, W.G. (Bill) VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States of America, NOD Analytics, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Vibhu Dhingra,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, East Carolina University – Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Afreen Shariff,

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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• Aabid Shariff,

  Affiliation Monsanto Company, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Edgar Lerma,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Parteek Singla,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Swapnil Kachare,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University – Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Zoheb Syed,

  Affiliation College of Arts and Sciences, College of William and Mary, Yorktown, Virginia, United States of America

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• Deeba Minhas,

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ryan Madanick,

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Xiangming Fang

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University – Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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