Annals of emergency medicine
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Given the popularity of educational blogs and podcasts in medicine, learners and educators need tools to identify trusted and impactful sites. The Social Media Index was a multi-sourced formula to rank the effect of emergency medicine and critical care blogs. In 2022, a key data point for the Social Media Index became unavailable. This bibliometric study aimed to develop a new measure, the Digital Impact Factor, as a replacement. ⋯ The Digital Impact Factor is a measure of the relative effect of educational blogs and podcasts within emergency medicine and critical care.