A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals

Huang, Wenya; Wang, Peiling; Wu, Qiang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194962

Cited by 101 publications

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“…6 A study comparing the correlation of AAS and citations in the 6 PLOS journals showed no significant correlation for PLOS Medicine. 4 Our study extends beyond these findings by including the highest impact general medicine journals, which are expected to have the highest AAS for their articles due to wider audience. However, we could not comment on the effect of article accessibility (i.e., open versus closed access) on this association.…”

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confidence: 52%

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Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study

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confidence: 52%

“…AAS is increasingly used by journals as an integral article metric. While some studies have assessed the correlation between AAS and the number of citations in several disciplines and specialties, [1][2][3][4] it remains unclear whether AAS correlates with article citations among high-impact general medicine journals.…”

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confidence: 99%

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study

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“…Correlations between altmetrics scores and citations have been found by Evans and Krauthammer (2011) for Wikipedia and by Thelwall et al (2013) for Twitter. However, the degree of correlation between WoS citation rates and AAS varies significantly from journal to journal and, as discussed by Huang, Wang, and Wu (2018), in most cases no clear relationship exists between them, which was also found for the CS papers.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Altmetric (Altmetric.com 2018) gives the WoS index, but also aggregates all online and non-technical references including "tweets" and downloads of articles, mentions in blogs, and mentions in the news media in its Altmetric Attention Score. In this score, mentions in the news media and blogs received most of the weighting compared to mentions in Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube (Huang, Wang, and Wu 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Citation Study of Citizen Science Projects in Space Science and Astronomy

Odenwald

2018

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The idea of citizen science (CS) has been around for a very long time, and arguably goes back to the "gentleman science" time of Galileo and his contemporaries. The advent of the Internet has tremendously expanded the opportunity for the public to engage in scientific research using the CS model. A simple search on GOOGLE, for example, turns up projects as simple as merely noting the faintest stars that you can see in a constellation (GLOBE at Night) or as complex as The Milky Way Project, which has participants view thousands of infrared images of the Milky Way from the Spitzer Space Observatory and identify interstellar bubbles. Among the many concerns that scientists raise to the CS approach for conducting scientific research is whether the results will actually be meaningful to the scientific community at large. This consideration relates to questions about whether novice, non-professional participants are capable of delivering high-quality data to the Principle Investigator or project team (Lewandowski 2015; Kosmala et al. 2016). Labor and software development costs also have to be controlled that are associated with setting up and operating a CS project (Sauermann and Franzoni 2014). The bottom-line concern for most scientists, however, is whether the CS effort will lead to publishable results that will advance scientific knowledge in some measurable way. This paper describes the application of citation metrics to research papers published specifically within the CS project areas of space science and astronomy. It also attempts to place the products of CS-leveraged research within the context of general space science research. The objective is to use traditional citation analysis to determine whether CS research is quantitatively different from traditional space science research in its depth of penetration into the general research dialog. Methods One of the earliest citation studies-of all scientific papers, not just those focused on citizen science-was by de Solla Price (1965), who investigated "networks of scientific papers" by linking each published paper to other papers that later reference them. In 1979, Abt (1981) embarked on a study of 326 astronomy-related research papers published in 1961 and cited from 1961 to 1979. Using data from the Science Citation Index (1962), the study found 6,070 citations to these papers, and established that a typical research paper published at that time enjoyed approximately one citation per year, e.g., 6070/(326 * 18). Only about one-in-eighteen papers generated more than three citations per year irrespective of whether they were primarily observational or theoretical in nature. The peak

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“…In a large‐scale study, a significant correlation was found between six altmetric resources (tweets, Facebook wall posts, research highlights, blog mentions, mainstream media mentions and forum posts) and citation counts (Thelwall et al ). A recent study that covered six PloS specialized journals, revealed a significant positive correlation between the normalized altmetric scores and normalized citations (Huang et al ). The number of Twitter mentions can forecast highly cited articles within the first 3 days of their publication (Eysenbach ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Altmetric analysis of the contemporary scientific literature in Endodontology

Kolahi¹,

Khazaei

Iranmanesh

et al. 2019

Int Endodontic J

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Aim To analyse and visualize the knowledge structure of scientific articles in the field of Endodontology with high altmetric attention scores to discover hot topics, active researchers and the journals involved. Methodology On 5 June 2019, the altmetric database (Altmetric LLP, London, UK) was searched using the titles of 11 endodontic journals. Bibliometric data from endodontic articles and journals with an altmetric score >5 (top 5%) were retrieved from PubMed and analysed using the VOSviewer. Science mapping of articles with an altmetric score >5 at two levels was created: author keywords co‐occurrence and co‐authorship network analysis. Results Of the 2197 articles in the field of Endodontology identified with altmetrics, 192 had altmetric scores >5 (top 5%). Considering the total mentions amongst all altmetric resources, the Journal of Endodontics had the highest rank followed by the International Endodontic Journal and Australian Endodontic Journal. Twitter was the most popular altmetric data resource followed by patents and Facebook. Meta‐analysis, systematic review and pulpitis were the hot topics. At the author level, Dummer P.M.H had the greatest influence on the network. There was no significant correlation between altmetric score and citations count (P > 0.05). Mendeley mentions correlated with citations (P < 0.05). Conclusions Overall, the altmetric scores of topics within Endodontology were low, possibly due to the specific and specialized nature of the specialty, as well as the difficulty members of the public probably have in understanding endodontic research. Journals and researchers with a focus on Endodontology would have more influence if they were to set‐up their own social media profiles and thus enhance their visibility and social impact by immediately sharing research findings and communicating with their network and audience.

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A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals

Cited by 101 publications

References 31 publications

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study

A Citation Study of Citizen Science Projects in Space Science and Astronomy

Altmetric analysis of the contemporary scientific literature in Endodontology

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