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Background: In order to give the best care to patients, health professionals need to integrate the highest quality scientific evidence with clinical expertise and the opinions of the patients. However they have to deal with a huge amount of publications. Evidencias en Pediatría (EeP) (http://www.evidenciasenpediatria.es/) is a secondary publication of the Spanish Association of Paediatrics with the purpose of alerting clinicians of important advances in paediatric topics. EeP reviews 70 journals. The articles selected are summarised in abstracts and then commented by clinical experts. EeP has been included in the Cochrane Plus, and recently it has been supported by the Latin-American Association of Paediatrics (ALAPE).
Objectives: To describe the impact of the electronic journal EeP.
Methods: Since March 2010, EeP has been in a new web site. The social bookmarking has been implemented by creating links to Facebook and Twitter pages of EeP. We have used Google Analytics to extract the most outstanding information on the impact and acceptance of the journal.
Results: An amount of 142,377 visits have been received from April 2010 to May 2011, with 51,000 returning visitors (RV) (35.6%). RV meet the criteria of regular good clients of the site: more number of pages visited (3.12 pages/visit), more time on the site per visit (4.53 minutes) and smaller bounce rate (51,83%). The sources of traffic used were: referring sites (48.32%), search engines (28.2%)% (Google was the most used, 26.66%) and direct traffic (23.4%). The referring sites most used were the paediatric websites, followed by the social webs Facebook and Twitter. The majority of visitors come from Spanish-speaking countries, mainly Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
Conclusions: EeP is the first electronic journal of evidence-based paediatrics in Spanish in the world. It receives a large number of total visits and specially of returning visitors, who come mainly from Spanish-speaking countries.
Objectives: To describe the impact of the electronic journal EeP.
Methods: Since March 2010, EeP has been in a new web site. The social bookmarking has been implemented by creating links to Facebook and Twitter pages of EeP. We have used Google Analytics to extract the most outstanding information on the impact and acceptance of the journal.
Results: An amount of 142,377 visits have been received from April 2010 to May 2011, with 51,000 returning visitors (RV) (35.6%). RV meet the criteria of regular good clients of the site: more number of pages visited (3.12 pages/visit), more time on the site per visit (4.53 minutes) and smaller bounce rate (51,83%). The sources of traffic used were: referring sites (48.32%), search engines (28.2%)% (Google was the most used, 26.66%) and direct traffic (23.4%). The referring sites most used were the paediatric websites, followed by the social webs Facebook and Twitter. The majority of visitors come from Spanish-speaking countries, mainly Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
Conclusions: EeP is the first electronic journal of evidence-based paediatrics in Spanish in the world. It receives a large number of total visits and specially of returning visitors, who come mainly from Spanish-speaking countries.