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Scientific and Technical

“Capturing your audience”: analysis of Twitter engagements between tweets linked with an educational infographic or a peer-reviewed journal article

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Pages 177-183 | Received 11 Apr 2020, Accepted 10 Aug 2020, Published online: 08 Oct 2020

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