Correlation Between Altmetric Score and Citations in Pediatric Surgery Core Journals

Chang, Jeremy; Desai, Nidhi; Gosain, Ankush

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2019.05.010

Cited by 92 publications

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“…In addition, when compared to other Altmetric studies in the medical subspecialty literature, Implantology journals demonstrate much lower total Altmetric scores and Twitter mentions. 11,12,16,17 Although Facebook has an older online presence, Twitter has consistently been recognized as the main distributor of scientific knowledge through social media. 11,17 Our findings in the Implantology literature may represent an opportunity for journals and sponsoring organizations to more effectively develop new or use existing Twitter pages to deliver article information to the public.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…11,12,16,17 Although Facebook has an older online presence, Twitter has consistently been recognized as the main distributor of scientific knowledge through social media. 11,17 Our findings in the Implantology literature may represent an opportunity for journals and sponsoring organizations to more effectively develop new or use existing Twitter pages to deliver article information to the public. In most cases, there is no designated Twitter account for the journal itself; journals sponsors may elect to establish a journal-specific account or devote more effort to publicize interesting study results on their homepage.…”

Section: Year Twitter Createdmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1 However, the use of online media and other technological advances to distribute knowledge is becoming increasingly common. 7,11 Impact has been historically defined by article exposure within a field (ex. journal subscribers, citations accrued, impact factor of the journal in which it is published) and subsequent influence on clinical care or scientific knowledge; current definitions of impact should recognize the importance of exposure to the general public.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the growth of media leads to rapid data dissemination and acquisition, value assigned by society to particular research topics may become more apparent. 11 Altmetrics scores can provide a useful measure of article impact in the immediate interval following publication; a time period that may not be captured by total citation counts or impact factor. The ability to determine the immediate influence of an article on the field and on society is valuable in an age where information is always available right at our fingertips.…”

Section: P-valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Altmetrics have been used to investigate sub‐specialties in both the medical and dental literature . However, there are currently no studies comparing the associations between traditional bibliometrics (citation count and journal impact factor) with Altmetric scores across the Implantology literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analyzing the relationship between Altmetric score and literature citations in the Implantology literature

Warren

Patel

Boyd

2019

Clin Implant Dent Rel Res

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Background The influence of research has long been studied using citations and impact factors (IFs). Electronic media is changing how people interact with the scientific literature. There are few investigations into these trends. Purpose To explore whether Altmetrics correlate with traditional bibliometrics in the Implantology literature. Materials and Methods Five Implantology journals with the highest IF and the 10 most highly‐cited articles within those journals from 2013 to 2016 were reviewed. Altmetric score, citation count, and media “mentions” were recorded. Comparisons were conducted between Altmetric score, citations, and IF by performing Pearson correlation coefficients and descriptive statistics. Twitter accounts were studied and compared to other metrics. Results Analysis revealed no correlation between citations and Altmetrics (r = .096,P = .506) or IF and Altmetrics (r = .111,P = .443) in 2013. Altmetrics were also not significantly correlated with citations (r = 0.148,P = .305) or IF (r = .145,P = .315) in 2016. Total Altmetric scores were nine times higher in 2016 compared to 2013, with news outlets and Twitter seeing large increases in mentions. Twitter was the top medium receiving mentions across the two cohorts. Conclusions Compared to other fields, Implantology articles received lower Altmetric scores, noting an area of improvement. Altmetrics at this time are insufficient to replace traditional bibliometrics, but may provide helpful real‐time information concerning article dissemination.

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Section: Year Twitter Createdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Year Twitter Createdmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: P-valuementioning

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Analyzing the relationship between Altmetric score and literature citations in the Implantology literature

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Patel

Boyd

2019

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Can promotion on WeChat official accounts improve scholarly journals' academic impact? A micro‐level correlation comparison study

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WeChat has been developed into a unique social media and an increasing number of scholarly journals in China use it to promote their content.However, the effectiveness of WeChat promotion on academic impact is still unknown. This study selected five Chinese journals and investigated papers published in 2018, looking at reading counts on WeChat official accounts and the citations recorded on China's largest scholarly repository, China national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI). The raw data were normalized to lower the effect of journal size and then stratified into four data sets of the top 50%, top 25%, top 10% and top 1%. The results indicate that significant positive correlations between WeChat reading counts and citations exist across the total data set and the data sets of top 50%, top 25% and top 10%. The data set of the top 1% could not be analysed due to the small number of papers. Three of the five journals and two data sets of the other two journals exhibit similar positive correlations. This study demonstrates that promotion of WeChat official accounts can influence the academic impact of individual papers, but further study is needed to clarify the exact thresholds and influential factors.

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Immunology and social networks: an approach towards impact assessment

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Correlation Between Altmetric Score and Citations in Pediatric Surgery Core Journals

Cited by 92 publications

References 16 publications

Analyzing the relationship between Altmetric score and literature citations in the Implantology literature

Analyzing the relationship between Altmetric score and literature citations in the Implantology literature

Can promotion on WeChat official accounts improve scholarly journals' academic impact? A micro‐level correlation comparison study

Immunology and social networks: an approach towards impact assessment

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