The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the power of Twitter networking exemplified through #INPST hashtag analysis

• DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2022.154520
• Publication Date: 2022-10-22T15:45:31Z
• Authors: Rajeev K. Singla; Ronita De; Thomas Efferth; Bruno Mezzetti; Md. Sahab Uddin; Sanusi; Fidele Ntie-Kang; Dongdong Wang; Fabien Schultz; Kiran R. Kharat; Hari Prasad Devkota; Maurizio Battino; Daniel Sur; Ronan Lordan; Sourav S Patnaik; Christos Tsagkaris; Chandragiri Siva Sai; Surya Kant Tripathi; Mihnea-Alexandru ...; Mosa E.O. Ahmed; Elena González-Bu...; Smith B. Babiaka; Shravan Kumar Paswan; Joy Ifunanya Odim...; Faizan Akram; Jesus Simal-Gandara; Mágali S. Urquiza; Aleksei Tikhonov; Himel Mondal; Shailja Singla; Sara Di Lonardo; Eoghan J Mulholland; Merisa Cenanovic; Abdulkadir Yusif ...; Francesca Giampieri; Soojin Lee; Nikolay T. Tzvetkov; Anna Maria Louka; Pritt Verma; Hitesh Chopra; Scarlett Perez Olea; Johra Khan; José M. Alvarez S...; Xiaonan Zheng; Michał Tomczyk; Manoj Kumar Sabnani; Christhian Delfin...; Garba M. Khalid; Hemanth Kumar Boyina; Milen I. Georgiev; Claudiu T. Supuran; Eduardo Sobarzo-S...; Tai-Ping Fan; Valeria Pittala; Antoni Sureda; Nady Braidy; Gian Luigi Russo; Rosa Anna Vacca; Maciej Banach; Gérard Lizard; Amira Zarrouk; Sonia Hammami; Ilkay Erdogan Orhan; Bharat B. Aggarwal; George Perry; Mark JS Miller; Michael Heinrich; Anupam Bishayee; Anake Kijjoa; Nicolas Arkells; David Bredt; Michael Wink; Bernd l. Fiebich; Gangarapu Kiran; Andy Wai Kan Yeung; Girish Kumar Gupta; Antonello Santini; Massimo Lucarini; Alessandra Durazzo; Amr El-Demerdash; Albena T. Dinkova...; Alejandro Cifuentes; Eliana B. Souto; Muhammad Asim Mas...; Pravin Badhe; Javier Echeverría; Jarosław Olav Hor...; Olaf K. Horbanczuk; Helen Sheridan; Sadeeq Muhammad S...; Anna Maria Witkowska; Ibrahim M. Abu-Re...; Muhammad Riaz; Hammad Ullah; Akolade R. Oladipupo; Víctor Lopez; Neeraj Kumar Sethiya; Bhupal Govinda Sh...; Palaniyandi Ravanan; Subash Chandra Gupta; Qushmua E. Alzahrani; Preethidan Dama S...; Jianbo Xiao; Mohammad Amin Moo...; Parasuraman Aiya ...; Amit Kumar Singh; Ananda Kumar Chet...; Jayanta Kumar Patra; Gopal Singh; Tomasz M. Karpiński; Fuad Al-Rimawi; Rambod Abiri; Atallah F. Ahmed; Davide Barreca; Sharad Vats; Said Amrani; Carmela Fimognari; Andrei Mocan; Lucian Hritcu; Prabhakar Semwal; Md. Shiblur Rahaman; Mila Emerald; Akinleye Stephen ...; Abhilasha Singh; Ashima Joshi; Tanuj Joshi; Shafaat Yar Khan; Gareeballah Osman...; Aiping Lu; Sandeep Ramchandr...; Imen Ghzaiel; Niyazi Acar; Nour Eddine Es-Safi; Gokhan Zengin; Azazahemad A. Kur...; Arvind Kumar Sharma; Bikash Baral; Neeraj Rani; Philippe Jeandet; Monica Gulati; Bhupinder Kapoor; Yugal Kishore Moh...; Zahra Emam-Djomeh; Raphael Onuku; Jennifer R. Depew; Omar M. Atrooz; Bey Hing Goh; Jose Carlos Andrade; Bikramjit Konwar; VJ Shine; João Miguel Lousa...; Jamil Ahmad; Vivek K. Chaturvedi; Krystyna Skalicka...; Rohit Sharma; Rupesh K. Gautam; Sebastian Granica; Salvatore Parisi; Rishabh Kumar; Atanas G. Atanasov; Bairong Shen
• Keywords: Productos Biológicos; Natural products; Biological Products; 0303 health sciences; [SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology; Open innovation; 9. Industry and infrastructure; 301209 Pharmazie; 610; Twitter research; ; Hashtag analysis; Natural products; Open innovation; Social media; Twitter research.; Humanos; Social media; 03 medical and health sciences; 301209 Pharmacy; Hashtag analysis; Medios de Comunicación Sociales; Humans; Digital tools; Hashtag analysis; Natural products; Open innovation; Social media; Twitter research; Digital tools; Social Media; [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology

The development of digital technologies and the evolution of open innovation approaches have enabled the creation of diverse virtual organizations and enterprises coordinating their activities primarily online. The open innovation platform titled "International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce" (INPST) was established in 2018, to bring together in collaborative environment individuals and organizations interested in natural product scientific research, and to empower their interactions by using digital communication tools.In this work, we present a general overview of INPST activities and showcase the specific use of Twitter as a powerful networking tool that was used to host a one-week "2021 INPST Twitter Networking Event" (spanning from 31st May 2021 to 6th June 2021) based on the application of the Twitter hashtag #INPST.The use of this hashtag during the networking event period was analyzed with Symplur Signals (https://www.symplur.com/), revealing a total of 6,036 tweets, shared by 686 users, which generated a total of 65,004,773 impressions (views of the respective tweets). This networking event's achieved high visibility and participation rate showcases a convincing example of how this social media platform can be used as a highly effective tool to host virtual Twitter-based international biomedical research events.