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

Abstract

Background
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.

Methods
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.

Results and Conclusion
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.

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Original Article
The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the
power of Twitter networking exemplied through #INPST hashtag analysis
Rajeev K. Singla
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, Ronita De
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, Thomas Efferth
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, Bruno Mezzetti
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, Fidele Ntie-Kang
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, Dongdong Wang
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, Fabien Schultz
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, Kiran R. Kharat
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Hari Prasad Devkota
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Christos Tsagkaris
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Mosa E.O. Ahmed
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, Smith B. Babiaka
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, Shravan Kumar Paswan
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Joy Ifunanya Odimegwu
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, Faizan Akram
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, Jesus Simal-Gandara
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Aleksei Tikhonov
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, Himel Mondal
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, Shailja Singla
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, Sara Di Lonardo
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Eoghan J Mulholland
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Michael Heinrich
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Michael Wink
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, Bernd l. Fiebich
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, Gangarapu Kiran
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, Andy Wai Kan Yeung
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Girish Kumar Gupta
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, Antonello Santini
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, Massimo Lucarini
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, Alessandra Durazzo
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Amr El-Demerdash
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, Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova
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, Alejandro Cifuentes
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, Eliana B. Souto
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Muhammad Asim Masoom Zubair
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, Pravin Badhe
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, Javier Echeverría
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Jarosław Olav Horba´
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, Olaf K. Horbanczuk
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, Helen Sheridan
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Sadeeq Muhammad Sheshe
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, Anna Maria Witkowska
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, Ibrahim M. Abu-Reidah
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Muhammad Riaz
cx
, Hammad Ullah
cy
, Akolade R. Oladipupo
cz
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, Víctor Lopez
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Neeraj Kumar Sethiya
dc
, Bhupal Govinda Shrestha
dd
, Palaniyandi Ravanan
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Subash Chandra Gupta
df
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dg
, Qushmua E. Alzahrani
dh
, Preethidan Dama Sreedhar
di
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Jianbo Xiao
dj
, Mohammad Amin Moosavi
dk
, Parasuraman Aiya Subramani
dl
,
Amit Kumar Singh
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, Ananda Kumar Chettupalli
dn
, Jayanta Kumar Patra
do
, Gopal Singh
dp
,
Tomasz M. Karpi´
nski
dq
, Fuad Al-Rimawi
dr
, Rambod Abiri
ds
, Atallah F. Ahmed
dt
,
du
,
Davide Barreca
dv
, Sharad Vats
dw
, Said Amrani
dx
, Carmela Fimognari
dy
, Andrei Mocan
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Lucian Hritcu
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Abbreviations: COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019; DHPSP, Digital Health and Patient Safety Platform; FDA, Food and Drug Administration; HIV/AIDS, Human
Immunodeciency Virus/ Acquired ImmunoDeciency Syndrome; INPST, International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce; ICNPU-2019, The 4th International
Conference on Natural Products Utilization from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf, 2019; LDCs, Least Developed Countries; MDPI, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing
Institute; ROS, Reactive Oxygen Species; SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2; STEM, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics.
* Corresponding authors.
E-mail addresses: Atanas.Atanasov@dhps.lbg.ac.at (A.G. Atanasov), bairong.shen@scu.edu.cn (B. Shen).
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Received 11 February 2022; Received in revised form 12 July 2022; Accepted 21 October 2022

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School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab-144411, India
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Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (D3A) Universit`
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Department of Pharmacy, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Research Center for Population - Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia
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Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea P.O. Box 63, Cameroon
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Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, HSC 4N71, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1,
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Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty III - Process Sciences, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, Berlin 13355, Germany
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Program for Leading Graduate Schools, HIGO Program, Kumamoto University, Japan
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Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona 60131, Italy
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International Research Center for Food Nutrition and Safety, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Department of Medical Oncology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA, United States
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University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece
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Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Gomati Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010, India
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan
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Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
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Department of Pharmacology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy. University of Lagos, Nigeria
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Bahawalpur College of Pharmacy (BCP), Bahawalpur Medical and Dental College (BMDC), Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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Universidade de Vigo, Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Science, Ourense E-32004, Spain
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Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
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Translational Research Laboratory in Immunotherapy, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
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Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems-Italian National Research Council (IRET-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino Fi 50019, Italy
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Gastrointestinal Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Independent Researcher, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
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Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Research Group on Food, Nutritional Biochemistry and Health, Universidad Europea del Atl´
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Department of Biochemical Pharmacology and Drug Design, Institute of Molecular Biology "Roumen Tsanev", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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University of Thessaly, Greece
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Department of Pharmacology, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, India
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Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Punjab, India
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MOL2NET 2021, 7th edition, Mexico
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Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Al Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia
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Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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Department of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy with the Division of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Białystok, ul. Mickiewicza 2a, Białystok 15-230,
Poland
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The University of Texas at Arlington, United States
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Alloy Therapeutics, United States
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Pharmaceutical Engineering Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast BT9, United Kingdom
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School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, Anurag University, Venkatapur, Medchal, Hyderabad, Telangana 500088, India
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Laboratory of Metabolomics, Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 139 Ruski Blvd., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
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University of Florence, Neurofarba Dept., Italy
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Instituto de Investigaci´
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Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain
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Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, Northwest University, Xi’an,
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Department of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Research Group in Community Nutrition and Oxidative Stress, University of the Balearic Islands-IUNICS, Health Research Institute of Balearic Islands (IdISBa), and
CIBEROBN (Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition), Palma, Balearic Islands E-07122, Spain
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Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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National Research Council, Institute of Food Sciences, Avellino 83100, Italy
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Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Council of Research, Bari 70126, Italy
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Department of Preventive Cardiology and Lipidology, Medical University of Lodz (MUL), Lodz, Poland
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Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
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Universit´
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University of Monastir (Tunisia), Faculty of Medicine, LR-NAFS ‘Nutrition - Functional Food & Vascular Health’, Tunisia
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Ankara 06330, Türkiye
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Department of Neuroscience, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas, United States
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Heidelberg University, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB), Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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Neurochemistry and Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine,
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School of Pharmacy, Anurag University, India
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Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sri Sai College of Pharmacy, Badhani, Pathankot, Punjab, India
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University of Napoli Federico II, Department of Pharmacy. Via D Montesano 49, Napoli 80131, Italy
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CREA—Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546 00178 Rome, Italy
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Metabolic Biology & Biological Chemistry Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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Organic Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee School of Medicine, United Kingdom
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Foodomics Lab, CIAL, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, Porto 4050-313, Portugal
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Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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Swalife Foundation, India
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Swalife Biotech Ltd, Ireland
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Sinhgad College of Pharmacy, Vadgaon (BK) Pune Maharashtra India
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Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec 05-552, Poland
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Department of Technique and Food Product Development, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW) 159c Nowoursynowska, Warsaw 02-776, Poland
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The NatPro Centre. Trinity College Dublin. Dublin 2, Ireland
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Kano University of Science & Technology Wudil, Kano, Nigeria
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Medical University of Bialystok, Department of Food Biotechnology, Poland
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School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook A2H 5G4, Canada
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Department of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal 18050, Pakistan
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Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80131, Italy
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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria
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Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Department of Pharmacy, Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de G´
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Faculty of Pharmacy, DIT University, Dehradun, India
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Dept of Biotechnology, Kathmandu University, Nepal
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Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India
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Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati, Assam, India
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Department of Pharmacy/Nursing Medicine Health and Environment, University of the Region of Joinville (UNIVILLE) Brazil, Sana Catarina, Joinville, Brazil
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Hermian Foundation for Neuro Research & Innovation, Kannur, India
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University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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Molecular Medicine Department, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran P.O. Box: 14965/161, Iran
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Independent Researcher, Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Chennai, India - 600048. formerly, Pallavaram, Chennai 600117,
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj 211002 India
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Center for Nanomedicine, School of Pharmacy, Anurag University, Hyderabad 500088, India
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Research Institute of Integrative Life Sciences, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyangsi 10326, Republic of Korea
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Department of Plant Functional Metabolomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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Chair and Department of Medical Microbiology, Pozna´
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Al-Quds University, Palestine
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Department of Forestry Science and Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
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Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Universit`
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Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan 304022, India
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Laboratoire de Biologie et de Physiologie des Organismes, Facult´
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Department for Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
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Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Department of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Bd. Carol I, No. 11, Iasi 700506, Romania
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Department of Life Sciences, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248002, India
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Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan
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Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Sardar Bhagwan Singh University, Balawala, Dehradun, India
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bhimtal, Kumaun University (Nainital), India
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Research Lab III, Hematology & Vascular Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
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Department of Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Hilat Kuku, Khartoum North P.O. Box No. 204, Sudan
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School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, HongKong, China
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Department of Botany, Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s, Dada Patil Mahavidyalaya, Karjat, Maharashtra, India
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Mohammed V University in Rabat, LPCMIO, Materials Science Center (MSC), Ecole Normale Sup´
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Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
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Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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Center of Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India
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Institute of Biological Resources, Nepal
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chaudhary Bansilal University, Bhiwani, Haryana, India
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University of Reims, Research Unit Induced Resistance and Plant Bioprotection, USC INRAe 1488, Reims, France
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School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road (NH 1) Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India
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Department of Applied Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), Techno City, Kling Road, Baridua, Ri-Bhoi,
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University of Tehran, Iran
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Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nigeria
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Independent Researcher, United States
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Department of Biological Sciences, Mutah University, Jordan
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College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Biofunctional Molecule Exploratory (BMEX) Research Group, School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
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TOXRUN – Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences, CESPU, Gandra, Portugal
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Independent, Guwahati, Assam, India
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Cancer Research Program, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695014, India
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Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Alameda Prof. Hernˆ
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Department of Human Nutrition, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
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Department of Rasa Shastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005,
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Deparment of Pharmacology, Indore Institute of Pharmacy, IIST Campus, Rau-Indore-453331, India
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Microbiota Lab, Department of Pharmacognosy and Molecular Basis of Phytotherapy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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Lourdes Matha Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Kerala State, India
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School of Medical and Allied Sciences, K.R. Mangalam University, Sohna Road, Gurugram, Haryana 122103, India
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, Vienna 1090, Austria
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, Vienna 1090, Austria
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Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Magdalenka 05-552, Poland
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Keywords:
Natural products
Open innovation
Social media
Hashtag analysis
Twitter research
Digital tools
ABSTRACT
Background: 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 on-
line. 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 scientic research, and to empower their interactions by using digital communication tools.
Methods: In this work, we present a general overview of INPST activities and showcase the specic 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.
Results and Conclusion: 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.
Introduction
Signicance of natural products and natural product research
Nature offers multiple solutions to almost all the challenges faced by
mankind. In particular, natural products represent a sustainable bio-
resource with the potential to treat and manage various diseases and
disorders (Durazzo et al., 2018a; Durazzo and Lucarini, 2021, 2019;
Ghareeb et al., 2020; Uhrin et al., 2018). Globally, a fast and dynami-
cally growing body of evidence is continuously emerging from compu-
tational level to the clinical level, enabling translational aspects and
diverse applications of a wide range of bioactive natural products
(Apoorva et al., 2021; Bankar et al., 2011; Bansal et al., 2021; Dangar
and Patel, 2021; Igoli et al., 2014a, 2014b; Madaan et al., 2022;
Marzocco et al., 2021; Okoh et al., 2021; Singla, 2021; Singla et al.,
2021a, 2021b, 2021c; Singla et al., 2021d). Plants, animals, and mi-
crobes serve as natural resources and goldmines for therapeutics, sup-
plements, and nutraceuticals discovery (Cap´
o et al., 2021; Dai et al.,
2021; Durazzo et al., 2018b, 2020; Miro´
nczuk-Chodakowska et al.,
2021; Santini et al., 2018; Santini and Novellino, 2014, 2017, 2018;
Santini et al., 2017; Singla and Dubey, 2019; Singla et al., 2019; Wink,
2015; Yang et al., 2019a). Not only do the traditional medicinal systems
rely on natural products, but the modern medicinal systems also heavily
rely on using multiple natural product scaffolds for drug development,
in an unmodied state or for-property optimization achieved by modi-
fying the starting natural product scaffold (Atanasov et al., 2015; Cha-
turvedi et al., 2020; Ravula et al., 2021; Tewari et al., 2021). For clinical
purpose, there are already a lot of highly successful natural
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product-based medicines, including but not limited to antibacterials
such as streptomycin (Waksman and Schatz, 1945), antifungals such as
amphotericin B (Cavassin et al., 2021), antimalarials such as artemisinin
(Wang et al., 2019b), anticancer agents such as vinca alkaloids (Ehr-
hardt et al., 2011), camptothecin (Wang et al., 2021), and paclitaxel
(Rowinsky et al., 1995), or antidiabetic agents such as acarbose (Kumar
Singla et al., 2016; Tupas et al., 2020). Chemical modication of natural
product molecules has also yielded multiple clinically relevant drugs
such as caspofungin (Walsh et al., 2004), artemether (Hien et al., 1996),
or etoposide (Cragg and Pezzuto, 2016; O’Dwyer et al., 1985). As a
reection of the high signicance of natural products for the discovery
and development of new pharmaceuticals, a high number of natural
products or their derivatives are currently in clinical trials for a range of
diverse diseases (Ahmad et al., 2021; Lima et al., 2021; Nile and Kai,
2020; Singla et al., 2022a, 2022b). Moreover, multi-component natural
product mixtures are also studied to explore their therapeutic potential
and used clinically (Wink, 2015). Examples of botanical drugs based on
such complex mixtures of natural products approved by the United
States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include sinecatechins
(marketed as Veregen® by Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc.), an extract of
green tea leaves [Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze] approved for the treat-
ment of genital and anal warts in 2006, and crofelemer (marketed as
Mytesi™ by Napo Pharmaceuticals), an oligomeric
proanthocyanidin-enriched extract from the latex of the Dragon’s blood
tree (Croton lechleri Müll.Arg.) that was approved for human immuno-
deciency virus/ acquired immunodeciency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)--
related diarrhea in 2012 (Chen et al., 2008; Crutchley et al., 2010;
Kleindl et al., 2017). Natural products are also been intensively inves-
tigated for prevention or treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (Dev-
pura et al., 2021; Lordan et al., 2021; Silveira et al., 2020; Singla et al.,
2021b; Wang et al., 2020b). Aside of medicinal plants, many mushrooms
are also exhibiting therapeutic potential, and for example in China
numerous medicinal mushrooms have been included in the Chinese
Pharmacopoeia (Dai et al., 2021). Along this line, it is important to
underline that multiple herbal preparations are used in complementary
and alternative medicine around the world. For example, plants with
antioxidant phytoconstituents, such as phenolics, carotenoids, allicin,
mustard oil and vitamins C and E, are widely employed as phyto-
pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals and help prevent diseases caused
from an overdose of reactive oxygen species (ROS) including cancer,
cardiovascular and neurodegenerative health conditions (Wink, 2022).
To reduce the nancial strain on the public from poorer countries un-
dergoing rapid (economic) development (LDCs), it is essential to focus
on such sustainable resources for therapeutic management as they will
be cost-effective, accessible, and in most cases safe (Chaturvedi et al.,
2018; Heinrich et al., 2021; Singla et al., 2021d; Suryanarayana Raju
et al., 2015).
In addition to therapeutic uses, natural products and materials have
many other (non-medical) applications in different areas. Cellulose
nanobers with improved photothermal stability, for example, have
potential in the elds of coating and packaging (Deng et al., 2022). Rice
husk can be applied as a green coagulant (Tan et al., 2022), and
hydrophobically modied agarose as hydrogels (Evans et al., 2022).
Sweeteners (Pawar et al., 2013; Yeung et al., 2019d), biosurfactants (Liu
et al., 2022), bioremediators (Xue et al., 2022), adsorbents (Etim et al.,
2016), biofuels (Murillo et al., 2021; Sirigeri et al., 2019), fuel cells
(Chen et al., 2018), carbon electrodes (Xi et al., 2021), carbon fertilizers
(Xiang et al., 2021), paper industry uses (Haunreiter et al., 2021), cos-
meceuticals (Alves et al., 2020), and pesticides (Yang et al., 2021; Zac-
cardelli et al., 2020) are just a couple of examples out of the broad
spectrum applications of various natural products and materials.
Scientic open innovation in the era of digital communications
The traditional approach for the generation of industrial innovation
(including the development of new products and services) has been
relying on internal resources and company employees. A newer concept,
“open innovation”, moved the focus on a more substantial reliance on
innovation generated externally, and its interaction with the company´s
resources (Chesbrough and Crowther, 2006; Hodson, 2016). The open
innovation concept has an advantage that it can tap into newly devel-
oped technologies and ideas without the need to entirely depend on own
resources and expertise, the maintenance of which is complex and
costly. In this model of innovation generation, industrial entities move
their priority out of intellectual property protection to pursue external
collaboration-oriented strategies, whereby collaborating partners could
be other companies, academic units, or the general public as a whole. In
analogy to the industrial approach where the concept was rst created,
the “Open Innovation in Science” approach in academia emerges as a set
of practices with the focus shifted to openness and collaborative, inter-
active, integrated, and often interdisciplinary work involving more vital
interaction with external parties from academia, industry, and society
(Beck et al., 2020), realized for example by creating collaborative net-
works and research infrastructures in the perspective of interoperability
(Dwyer et al., 2021). In the arena of medical and pharmaceutical
research, which is of relevance to the focus of the open innovation
platform described in the present manuscript, a recent total-scale liter-
ature analysis identied 384 scientic papers dealing with open inno-
vation, with the rst publications starting to appear in the literature in
the middle of the 2000s (Yeung et al., 2021a). The later analysis also
revealed that, so far, most research on open innovation in the arena of
medical and pharmaceutical research was done in North America and
Europe, and that the pharmaceutical sector was the most active indus-
trial stakeholder.
Digital communication tools have the potential to empower signi-
cantly open innovation approaches. Historically, some of the rst ap-
plications of open innovation took place exactly in the area of
information technologies and computer technologies (in addition to the
above-mentioned pharmaceutical industry sector) (Chesbrough and
Crowther, 2006). With the use of digital communication tools, open
innovation practitioners can reach quickly and easily large audiences of
relevant stakeholders, which is of high importance for the application of
key open innovation techniques such as crowdsourcing (Wazny, 2018).
Moreover, digital technologies have enabled the emergence of a variety
of virtual organizations that coordinate their activities primarily online,
one of which is the International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce
(INPST) (Atanasov et al., 2021; Camarinha-Matos and Afsarmanesh,
2005) that we present in detail in the current manuscript.
The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST), an open
innovation platform to invigorate the natural product research eld
The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) was
initiated in the early 2018, aiming to bring together in a collaborative
environment individuals and organizations interested in natural prod-
ucts science, and empower them through the application of open inno-
vation approaches and digital communication tools (for both
networking and dissemination of credible scientic information).
Envisaging the diverse applications of natural products in many areas of
industry and healthcare, new natural product-related scientic ndings
could be of high importance in addressing some key societal problems,
such as the search for new medicines, the establishment of innovative
technologies that are friendlier to the environment, and the develop-
ment of better food and dietary supplements. Along this line, both the
continuous exploration of the existing natural biodiversity is of benet,
but also cultivated biodiversity, involving improvements mediated
through modern genetic techniques, which allow to specically increase
the content of substances of high nutritional and even pharmaceutical
interest (Sabbadini et al., 2021).
As the major entry point for accessing INPST-curated content, INPST
website (https://inpst.net/) has been established. The INPST platform
integrates several social media channels (Table 1) and presents in
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diverse subsections, contents that might be of interest to the visitors,
including links to relevant conferences, job offers, publications, funding
opportunities, and special issues of scientic journals. The INPST has
attracted strong attention, and over 1500 people from more than 50
countries have joined the platform as members or email subscribers as of
April 2021. In addition, large audiences have followed the major INPST
social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, ResearchGate, and LinkedIn),
as detailed in Table 1.
Aside from the INPST email list and social media channels, another
tool for direct communication between INPST members and web visitors
was provided through the INPST forum tool (https://inpst.net/other-t
opics-and-announcements/). Representative examples of different
INPST-based activities (Table 2) are aligned with the multiple dissemi-
nation and outreach activities. INPST-based networking has proven to
be an excellent catalyst for new collaborative integrated scientic
research (Banach et al., 2018; Horbanczuk et al., 2019; Jozwik et al.,
2018; Ruscica et al., 2021; Tancheva et al., 2020; Tewari et al., 2020;
Tzvetkov et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2019b; Zhubi-Bakija et al., 2021),
including joint work conducting meta-analysis of the published litera-
ture (Durazzo et al., 2021a, 2021b; Yeung et al., 2018, 2019a, 2020a;
Yeung et al., 2019b, 2020b, 2020c; Yeung et al., 2019c, 2021c, 2019d),
and the preparation of scientic collaborative review publications
(Khan et al., 2020; Li et al., 2021; Mondal et al., 2021, 2019; Tewari
et al., 2018; Vacca et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2022, 2018, 2019a; Wang
et al., 2021) utilizing broadly-international collaborative work. In the
latest example of collaborative work type, a special mention deserves a
2021 article from Nature Reviews Drug Discovery entitled “Natural
products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities,” in which the
International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce was used for the rst
time as an author group designation (Atanasov et al., 2021).
Twitter as a tool for science communication and networking
Twitter represents one of the comparably large social media plat-
forms with an estimated more than 300 million monthly active users (htt
ps://www.statista.com/). The major feature of the platform is that it
enables users to share publicly short messages (tweets), with the current
characters limit (since 2017) for a single tweet being 280 characters
(Boot et al., 2019). Furthermore, tweets can optionally include hyper-
links to other content on the web, photo images, short video clips, and
hashtags (broadly used tags in social media used to label and grouping
together thematically linked social media posts).
Twitter represents a social media platform widely used by scientists
(Soragni and Maitra, 2019) and the general public. It empowers scien-
tists to disseminate their research both to their peers (who are also the
users of the platform) and directly to the general public (without the
need for involvement of journalists or science communication pro-
fessionals). Moreover, Twitter represents a fertile ground for networking
of professionals and nding new collaboration partners, with multiple
examples in the scientic literature of fruitful research partnerships
starting through Twitter interactions (Baker, 2015; Doxtader et al.,
2019; Guralnick et al., 2016; Lurie et al., 2020).
Hashtags, which were mentioned above as one of the commonly used
tweet components, are designed as keyword-terms (usually thematically
related to the content of the tweet) that are missing spaces (in case the
term consists of several words) and have a hash sign (#) in front
(particular example: #NaturalProducts). Hashtags afford tagging and
thematic grouping of tweets and hashtag analysis has been widely used
as a research tool that allows different quantications (Cheung et al.,
2018; Gardhouse et al., 2017; Grabbert et al., 2019; Kudchadkar and
Carroll, 2020). In this context, relevant visibility parameters associated
with tweets that could be analyzed, include retweets (re-shares) and
impressions (views). Consequently, in this work, we aimed to evaluate
visibility-associated features of the INPST Twitter networking event
2021 (detailed in the next section) by #INPST Twitter hashtag analysis.
Table 1
Major INPST social media channels.
Social media Audience (as of
April 2021)- Pre
INPST
Networking Event
Audience (as of
January 2022)
Post INPST
Networking Event
Web address
Facebook 7672 8171 https://www.
facebook.com/INPST/
Twitter 3113 4084 https://twitter.com/
_INPST
ResearchGate 561 889 https://www.
researchgate.net/
project/International-
Natural-Product-
Sciences-Taskforce-
INPST
LinkedIn 573 725 https://www.linkedin.
com/company/
international-natural-
product-sciences-
taskforce/
Table 2
Representative examples of different categories of INPST-based activities.
Category Example Weblink
Conference
support
ICNPU-2019: The 4th
International Conference on
Natural Products Utilization
from Plants to Pharmacy
Shelf, supported by INPST
(29 May – 01 June 2019,
Albena resort, Bulgaria)
https://inpst.net/4th-
international-conference-on-
natural-products-utilization-
from-plants-to-pharmacy-
shelf-supported-by-inpst/
News entries
dissemination
INPST collaborative work
analyzes about 300,000
scientic papers to outline
trends in antioxidants
research
https://inpst.net/
antioxidant-phytochemicals-
takeover-scientic-attention-
replacing-antioxidant-
vitamins-and-minerals/
Research project
features
Multitarget peptide-
fragment hybrids for the
treatment of
neurodegenerative diseases
https://inpst.net/
multitarget-peptide-
fragment-hybrids-for-the-
treatment-of-
neurodegenerative-diseases/
Popularization of
scientic
publications
Marine natural products https://inpst.net/marine-
natural-products/
Funding
announcements
Government of Ireland
International Education
Scholarship Programme
https://inpst.net/
government-of-ireland-
international-education-
scholarship-program/
Online lectures SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19:
Basic knowledge on a novel
pandemic (Special Online
Lecture by Prof. Thomas
Efferth, on 9th of March
2021)
https://inpst.net/sars-cov-2-
and-covid-19-basic-
knowledge-on-a-novel-
pandemic/
Job offers Non-academic Executive
Director at Natural Product
Research center (at Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland)
https://inpst.net/non-
academic-executive-
director-at-natural-product-
research-center-at-trinity-
college-dublin-ireland/
Collaborative
research calls
Collaboration call: Root of
Althea ofcinalis (marsh-
mallow)
https://inpst.net/
collaboration-call-root-of-
althea-ofcinalis-marsh-
mallow/
Award
announcements
INPST Young Scientist
Award 2019
https://inpst.net/inpst-
young-scientist-award-
2019/
Blogging Pomegranate for heart health
and the science behind it
https://inpst.net/blog/
pomegranate-for-heart-
health-and-the-science-
behind-it/
Dissemination of
journal special
issues
Natural Products and Their
Applications
https://inpst.net/crbiotech-
special-issue-natural-
products-and-their-
applications/
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Methodology
The use of the #INPST hashtag was assessed through a one-week
event, highlighted and promoted as “2021 INPST Twitter Networking
Event”, which spanned from 31st May 2021 to 6th June 2021. Twitter
users were encouraged to use the #INPST hashtag, while doing any
relevant scientic communication on Twitter. Contributions that were
being encouraged included: showcasing individual research, collabora-
tion calls, job postings, journal special issue announcements,
networking messages, conference announcements, Twitter polls,
seminar announcements, links of relevant new publications, and job
searches. Readers can refer to https://inpst.net/inpst-twitter-networkin
g-event-2021/ for more details. Utilization of the hashtag #INPST
through the study period was analyzed with the aid of Symplur Signals
(https://www.symplur.com/).
Fig. 1. Cumulative increase in the number of #INPST-posting users (A), #INPST-containing tweets (B), and impressions/views (C) during the networking event
timeline (31st May to 6th June 2021).
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Results and discussion
A total of 6036 tweets were posted by 686 users in that one-week
networking event, generating a total of 65,004,773 impressions (views
of the respective tweets). Of these 6036 tweets, 4272 tweets (70.8%)
contained links, while only 319 tweets (5.28%) contained different
attached images. Strategic usage of links, related hashtags, and images
are in general relevant in strengthening tweets’ visibility (Mishori et al.,
2019). Mishori and the team, in their study published in 2019, have
covered seven hashtags such as #ilooklikeasurgeon, #Women-
InMedicine, #SheLeads2017, #seeitbeit, #BlackMenInMedicine,
#QuoteHer, and #diversityinmedicine, and analyzed them for one year.
For each tweet, the volume of tweets recorded on a monthly basis
(Mishori et al., 2019) was less than the tweets yielded in our one week
#INPST campaign. This indicates that the tweets number obtained in the
conducted “2021 INPST Twitter Networking Event” was comparably
higher than weekly tweets reported in the literature for many other
hashtags with biomedical signicance.
Out of the 686 Twitter users who posted #INPST-containing tweets,
399 (58.2%) made only one tweet during the networking event period;
95 (13.8%) posted two tweets, while 192 (28.0%) users made three or
more tweets. This suggested that close to two hundred users have
regularly used the hashtag #INPST while promoting their scientic
content on Twitter. It has been observed that during the one week of this
hashtag networking event, new users kept on joining in the tweeting and
sharing (Fig. 1A). On the rst day, only 211 Twitter users joined the
networking event, and the participant number gradually increased in the
next few days, reaching 686 users by the last day of the networking
event. During the study period, new tweets number also gradually
increased, with daily tweet numbers in the range 814–1200 (Fig. 1B). On
the rst day of the networking event 996 tweets and 11.6 million im-
pressions were recorded. Each day, there was an increase of around 10
million of new impressions, and by the end of the networking event
week, there were more than 65 million impressions (Fig. 1C). For
comparison, in a one-year period (from 1st of March 2021 to 1st of
March 2022), there have been 49,300 tweets using the hashtag #INPST
that have been shared by 4209 users and generated 610,157,622 im-
pressions. Considering that there are around 52 weeks in a year, it be-
comes obvious that the “2021 INPST Twitter Networking Event” that
took place in one single week (from 31st May 2021 to 6th June 2021)
generated hugely increased weekly activity reected in the number of
shared tweets (6036 tweets in a single week) participating users (686
users) and generated impressions (65,004,773 impressions). In a pre-
vious study, a Twitter campaign focused on the hashtag #DHPSP was
executed for ve weeks, yielding a total of 151,984,378 impressions
(Kletecka-Pulker et al., 2021). Benjamin and Royer in 2018, have per-
formed analytics of a six months-interval to track the signicance of the
@AACAnatomy Twitter account. Total impressions gained by the posts
from that account were calculated to be 60,510 from September 2016 to
February 2017 (Benjamin and Royer, 2018). These comparative data
illustrate that the #INPST networking event, with its 65,004,773 im-
pressions (views) achieved very high visibility in just one week in
comparison to other biomedical Twitter-based campaigns. Similar con-
clusions can be also reached by comparing to the Spanish pro-vaccine
Twitter campaign focused on the hashtag #yomevacuno, which was
monitored for two weeks (between 14 December and 28 December
2020) and yielded 915,736 impressions (Herrera-Peco et al., 2021).
Further, as per the user information publicly available on Twitter, the
top 5 locations of the users who had used the #INPST hashtag while
posted during the one-week networking event was the United States (73
users), India (38), the United Kingdom (22), Canada (18), and Spain
(14). Although English remains the most frequently used language with
4068 of the tweets being in English, other languages such as Japanese
(26 tweets), Romanian (14), Welsh (10), and Slovenian (6) are also
noteworthy. During the one-week #INPST networking event, the most
widely shared tweet featured the publication “Big impact of
nanoparticles: analysis of the most cited nanopharmaceuticals and
nanonutraceuticals research”, and gathered 66 retweets, 6 quoted
tweets and 69 likes (Fig. 2). Furthermore, Twitter Analytics revealed
that this tweet generated 23,426 impressions and 211 engagements
(equaling the total number of times a user has interacted with a Tweet,
including all clicks, retweets, replies, follows, and likes). The article
featured in this tweet was published in Current Research in Biotech-
nology (Elsevier) in 2020. As per the Google Scholar record dated
January 18 2022, this article has been cited a total of 25 times.
Although, the follow-up time was too short to investigate whether the
visibility-boost achieved through Twitter during the #INPST
networking event might translate into more widespread readership and
increasing citation rate for this paper, it is interesting to mention that
previous works have indicated that on average widely tweeted manu-
scripts receive more citations (Luc et al., 2021).
The most frequently used words, which were found in the #INPST
tweets shared during the networking event, were also analyzed. The top
10 words were “read”, “twitter”, “research”, “paper”, “natural”, “event”,
“analysis”, “review”, “published”, and “networking” (Fig. 3). All of these
words have meanings that can be linked to the scope of the #INPST
Twitter networking event and scientic research in general. The fre-
quency of these words is quite high, ranging from 200 to more than 400
uses.
As the co-hashtag usage also inuences the visibility of tweets, we
additionally analyzed the hashtags that were co-occurring with #INPST.
The top 10 hashtags that co-occurred with #INPST were also all related
and relevant to the focus of the Twitter networking event (Fig. 4). The
hashtag #DHPSP (an acronym for Digital Health and Patient Safety
Platform) is ofcially registered with the Symplur Healthcare Hashtag
Project and meant to be used with tweets related to “digital health, open
innovation, patient safety, personalized medicine” (Kletecka-Pulker
et al., 2021). #NPMND is a hashtag ofcially registered with the Sym-
plur Healthcare Hashtag Project and is meant to be used with tweets
related to “cancer, diabetes, metabolic disorders, natural products,
neurological disorders, obesity, pain, Parkinson’s disease” (Singla,
2021). #AcademicTwitter, is a widely used hashtag to label various
academy-related Twitter discussions (Fuller and Potvin, 2020;
Gomez-Vasquez and Romero-Hall, 2020). #SciComm hashtag is used
with tweets related to “Medical Education, scientic communication,
scientic posters” (Kaczmarczyk, 2015). #cancer is broadly used in
tweets related to cancer. #AcademicChatter is dedicated to broader
academic community chatting (Davies, 2021; Stillwell, 2021). #Open-
Science is a hashtag from the accounts @_open_science_ and @open-
science, and is related to “promoting the discussion/dissemination of
open science, equality, inclusivity, and fairness”. #womeninstem is a
hashtag related to “gender equity, gender parity, STEM, women in
healthcare, women in medicine, women in research, women in science”
(Woolston, 2015). #meded is linked to medical education (Jaswal et al.,
2021), and #STEM is related to science and technology related com-
munications (abbreviation from science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics). Thus, all the co-hashtags in the top 10 list were related to
science and health.
Special issues in various journals have also been widely promoted
during the #INPST networking event. Among the three most shared
images (Fig. 5), two illustrations (left and right) are related to journal
special issues. At the same time, the third (in the center) presents an
overview of a specic drug discovery research project, "Multitarget
peptide-fragment hybrids for the treatment of neurodegenerative dis-
eases“ lead by Dr. Nikolay T. Tzvetko. The rst special issue (the image
on the left) is entitled “Plant-Derived Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals,
and Cosmeceuticals: From Basic to Applied Science.” This special issue is
being handled by the guest editor, Dr. Hari Prasad Devkota for the
journal, Applied Sciences, MDPI publisher. The second special issue was
about “Pharmacology of Plant Polyphenols in Human Health and Dis-
eases”. This special issue was handled by ve guest editors, including Dr.
Hari Prasad Devkota, Dr. Atanas G. Atanasov (the founder of INPST and
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the #INPST hashtag), Dr. Keshav Raj Paudel, Dr. Namrita Lall, and Dr.
Michał Tomczyk, for the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology (Frontiers
Publisher).
Other journal special issues promoted during the event (edited by Dr.
Anupam Bishayee were “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cancer
Prevention and Intervention with Bioactive Food Components” (in
Cancers), “Molecular insights into natural compounds in oncoprevention
and oncotherapy” (in Pharmacological Research), and “Molecular phar-
macology of anticancer natural products” (in Phytomedicine). Addition-
ally, a special collection E-book at the interface of Frontiers in Plant
Science, Frontiers in Pharmacology and Frontiers in Physiology, entitled
“Lignans: Insights into Their Biosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering,
Analytical Methods and Health Benets” was published in early 2021. It
was edited by Christophe F Hano, Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova, Norman
G Lewis, John R Cort, and Laurence B. Davin, and has been viewed more
than 18,700 times to date (https://www.frontiersin.org/research
-topics/9159/lignans-insights-into-their-biosynth
esis-metabolic-engineering-analytical-methods-and-health
-benet#overview) (Hano et al., 2021).
In their randomized-controlled trial “Three Facts and a Story”,
Tapper and co-workers have also evaluated the use of Twitter for
research dissemination, nding a signicant increase in engagement for
the papers published in the Journal of Hepatology, if relevant tweets
featuring these papers were posted on Twitter (Tapper et al., 2021).
Fig. 2. The most shared tweet of the #INPST Twitter networking event.
Fig. 3. . Top 10 words of the #INPST tweets posted during the networking event.
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Exploring another application of the social media platform, Bennett and
co-workers have utilized Twitter to identify COVID-19 vaccine-asso-
ciated hematological adverse events (Bennett et al., 2022). Further,
Eibensteiner and co-workers have utilized the Twitter poll analysis
methodology to assess the people’s willingness to vaccinate against
COVID-19 (Eibensteiner et al., 2021). As yet another application of
Twitter, Lyu et al. have utilized the social media platform to identify
topics and perform sentiment analysis in public for COVID-19
Fig. 4. Top 10 hashtags co-occurring with #INPST.
Fig. 5. The three most shared images during the #INPST Twitter Networking Event 2021 (with 27, 20, and once again 20 retweets, for the images displayed left,
center-bottom, and right, respectively).
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vaccine-related discussions (Lyu et al., 2021). Kwok and co-workers did
the same but focused only on Australian users and by machine learning
analysis (Kwok et al., 2021). As further examples of Twitter
hashtag-based studies, Kauffman and colleagues have analyzed the role
of Twitter in online radiology education by assessing the hashtag
#RadEd (Kauffman et al., 2021), and Robertson et al. have analyzed the
hashtags #RadialFirst and #RadialForNeuro on Twitter referring to
transradial access for neurointerventional procedures (Robertson et al.,
2021). While Twitter-applications have the limitation that they just
reach this segment of the population who are users of the platform, the
above-described research studies leave no scope for doubting for the
value of Twitter use and Twitter-based analysis for the scientic com-
munity. Moreover, since social media platforms are a fertile ground for
the dissemination of science and health-related misinformation (Yeung
et al., 2021b, 2022), scientists-driven activities and events hosted on
social media platforms such as Twitter can benet the general public by
providing credible and easy-accessible science-based information.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that using specically Twitter for sci-
entic communication-based initiatives such as the here-described
#INPST networking event has one important limitation: Twitter is not
popularly used in some countries, which results in excluding a large
group of researchers in Asia, particularly in China, who are engaging in
natural product research. Envisaging this limitation, it might be rec-
ommended that for better international coverage future events from that
kind might be executed with the simultaneous use of several diverse
social media platforms to better reach and involve scientists located in
different countries.
Conclusions
This study demonstrated how Twitter networking event attracted a
large number of scientists across the world to showcase their scientic
content and gained high visibility for the participants and the INPST
platform as a whole, as clearly demonstrated especially by the archived
high number (65,004,773) of impressions/views archived in just a single
week. This work sets an example of how Twitter can be used as a highly
efcient and fascinating channel to host virtual campaigns, disseminate
credible scientic information, and host virtual international biomedical
research events. Importantly, such digital networking events also pro-
vide platform for intensifying of interactions between scientists from
different parts of the world, which might potentially yield the formation
of new scientic collaborations beneting future biomedical research.
The wider implications of this analysis relate to the potential of better
understanding scientic communication both within the scientic
community as well as with the wider public enabling a better under-
standing of science.
CRediT author statement
Conceptualization: RKS and AGA; Data Curation: All Authors; Formal
Analysis: AGA; Funding Acquisition: BS; Supervision: AGA, TE, and BS;
Writing-Original Draft: RKS and AGA; Writing-Review & Editing: RD,
TE, BM, MSU, S, FN-K, DW, FS, KRK, HPD, MB, DS, RL, SSP, CT, CSS,
SKT, MAG, MEOA, EGB, SBB, SKP, JIO, FA, JSG, MSU, AT, HM, SS, SDL,
EJM, MC, AYM, FG, SL, NTT, AML, PV, HC, SPO, JK, JMAS, XZ, MT,
MKS, CDVM, GMK, HKB, MIG, CTS, ESS, TPF, VP, AS, NB, GLR, RAV,
MB, GL, AZ, SH, IEO, BBA, GP, MJSM, MH, AB, AK, NA, DB, MW, BLF,
GK, AWKY, GKG, AS, ML, AD, AED, ATDK, AC, EBS, MAMZ, PB, JE,
JOH, OKH, HS, SMS, AMW, IMAR, MR, HU, ARO, VL, NKS, BGS, PY,
SCG, QEA, DSP, JBX, MAM, PAS, AKS, AKC, JKP, GS, TMK, FAR, RA,
AFA, DB, SV, SA, CF, AM, LH, PS, MSR, ME, ASA, AS, AJ, TJ, SYK, GOAB,
AL, SRP, IG, NA, NEES, GZ, AAK, AKS, BB, NR, JP, MG, BK, YKM, ZED,
RO, JRD, OMA, BHG, JCA, BK, SVJ, JMLDF, JA, VKC, KSW, RS, RKG, SG,
SP, and RK. As a mega project, all the authors contributed in the Twitter
event. All data were generated in-house, and no paper mill was used. All
authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of work ensuring integrity
and accuracy.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation
of China (32070671), the COVID-19 research projects of West China
Hospital Sichuan University (Grant no. HX-2019-nCoV-057) as well as
the regional innovation cooperation between Sichuan and Guangxi
Provinces (2020YFQ0019). A. Sureda was granted by Instituto de Salud
Carlos III (CIBEROBN CB12/03/30038).
Availability of data and materials
All the key information is already available in the manuscript; still,
the authors are ready to provide any further data if the inquiry will be
routed through journal and afliation authorities, and follow the stan-
dard process.
Ethical approval and consent to participate
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Conict of Interest
Authors Dr. Rajeev K. Singla and Shailja Singla have an honorary-
based associations with the iGlobal Research and Publishing Founda-
tion (iGRPF), New Delhi, India. Dr. Bernd Fiebich is associated with
VivaCell Biotechnology GmbH. RKS, SS and BF along with the remaining
authors, declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any
commercial or nancial relationships that could be construed as a po-
tential conict of interest.
Given their role as Editor/Associate Editor/ Editorial board mem-
bers, “Prof. Thomas Efferth”, “Ilkay Erdogan Orhan”, “Milen Georgiev”,
“Davide Barreca”, “Maurizio Battino”, “Anupam Bishayee”, “Michael
Heinrich”,and“Jianbo Xiao”had no involvement in the peer-review of
this article and has no access to information regarding its peer-review.
Acknowledgments
Authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation
of China, West China Hospital Sichuan University as well as the regional
innovation cooperation between Sichuan and Guangxi Provinces for
providing necessary funding.
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