Table 2.

Correlation between Twitter activity (tweets) and PubMed publications and between Twitter activity (tweets) and preprints by organ system. Italicized values indicate statistical significance.

Organ system		Tweets and PubMed publications (ρ)	P value	Tweets and preprints (ρ)	P value
Overall trend		0.58	<.001	0.57	<.001
Trend by organ system
	Pulmonology or critical care	0.8	.002	0.8	.003
	Luminal gastroenterology	0.7	.009	0.6	.03
	Hepatology	0.7	.006	0.7	.009
	Inflammatory bowel disease	0.7	.006	0.5	.07
	Pancreatology	0.4	.20	0.4	.30
	Gastrointestinal endoscopy	0.7	.007	0.7	.02