Is it time to start using the emoji in biomedical literature?

O; Lynde GC; Jabaley CS

doi:10.1530/ey.16.12.15

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12.15. Is it time to start using the emoji in biomedical literature?

O’Reilly-Shah VN , Lynde GC & Jabaley CS

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BMJ 2018;363:k5033.
doi:10.1136/bmj.k5033

Don’t skip this article!

Lack of time, workload volume, the huge amounts of medical data.…. who has time to read all the information and medical literature?

The authors introduce and discuss the pros and cons of using emoji in biomedical literature “allowing for vast swaths of the human experience to be communicated by a single character”.

The advantage of using emoji is that they can add inflection and subtext in a manner not previously possible, for example instead of “regrettably, your submission did not receive a high enough priority rating to warrant its publication.” just use

Take a look at their suggestions to use emoji as an alternative to denotation of statistical significance, and don’t miss how the conclusions are expressed in emoji(s)! url: sci-hub.tw/10.1136/bmj.k5033.