“…in social sciences (Ringelhan, Wollersheim & Welpe, 2015) -in comparison with Twitter which, according to several studies, is a more representative source for altmetrics due to a quicker outreach of scientific works shared on this medium (Xia et al, 2016), but also due to a higher correlation with citations (Haustein, Costas & Lariviére, 2015). On the other hand, the academic network Mendeley reflects a kind of impact that is closer to citations and which has been documented by their mutual significant correlation (Alhoori & Furuta, 2014;Mohammadi et al, 2014;Mohammadi & Thelwall, 2014;Bornmann, 2015;Maflahi & Thelwall, 2016;Amath, 2017;Zhang, 2019). It is interesting to note that Mohammadi and Thelwall (2014) found the highest level of correspondence in natural sciences and related areas, and the lowest level in humanities -according to their findings, bookmarking is a tool for discovering connections between various disciplines and revealing potential interdisciplinary relations and interactions, so it has a descriptor function.…”