An Analysis of Time and Engagement for Articles Relating to Oncology

Oncology, the study of cancer, is a very broad and important field of science that many social media users do not know much about. The purpose of this paper is to determine which social networks have the most engagement about articles related to oncology. This will allow us to know optimal times and social networks to share research papers about Oncology that will have produce the highest engagement. By using the Python programming and Altmetric’s API, we created several different graphs that display engagement with different types of cancer, and at what times they are being engaged with. The results we found prove that Twitter, Wikipedia, and Mendeley all have high engagement rates with all types of cancer. However, different kinds of cancer, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer, have different times throughout the year in which they receive more or less engagement on social media. The significance of these dates correlate with cancer awareness events around the world.