Examining the Correlation Between Altmetric Score and Citations in the General Surgery Literature

Mullins, C. Haddon; Boyd, Carter J.; Corey, Britney

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2019.11.008

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“…Accordingly, researchers combined Citations and Altmetrics indexes to explain and define documents of different evolution types, revealing that the performance of highly cited documents on Altmetrics indexes differs from that of citation evolution [56,57]. By combining Bibliometric indexes and Alternative Metrological indexes, a comprehensive document scoring system was constructed [58][59][60][61] and was used to conduct empirical research [62][63][64][65]. These studies have, to a certain extent, verified the feasibility of comprehensive citations and Altmetrics to measure the influence of academic papers.…”

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Identifying the princes base on Altmetrics: An awakening mechanism of sleeping beauties from the perspective of social media

Hou

Zhang

2020

PLoS ONE

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In science, sleeping beauties (SBs) denotes a special phenomenon of the diffusion of scientific knowledge based on citation trajectories, the awakening of which is also measured through changes in the citations index. However, the rapid advancement of social media has altered the mode of scientific communication and knowledge diffusion. This study aims to re-identify SBs and its Prince from the perspective of comprehensive indicators, which involves the analysis of Altmetrics indexes and Citation index, and investigate the awakening mechanism of A-SB to supplement the research on the awakening mechanism of SBs. By combining Ab index, we redefined the Prince, which makes A-SB receive high attention after a long Sleeping period and reflects the most prominent academic or social behavior that awakens and sustains the Awakening of A-SB. Then we conducted empirical research on the retrieved PLOS Biology collection and examined Prince after identifying the A-SB. The analysis and summary of the characteristics of the identified A-SB and Prince revealed the SBs’ awakening mechanism under the comprehensive trajectory based on Altmetrics from the three dimensions of the influence between the indicators, the overall evolution trajectory of A-SB, and literature bibliometric attributes. In the trajectory of Delayed Recognition stage of A-SB, we define the Dogsleep of SBs, which mirrors that the instability of the Sleeping of SBs will generate a specific negative impact on Prince of A-SB and Awakening intensity. Besides, the literature bibliometric attributes cannot reflect the tendency of users to read academic papers, which again proves that the traditional citation index cannot be neglected in the awakening mechanism of A-SB. Overall, this study demonstrates the addition of the Altmetrics indexes as a useful complement, illustrating the inheritance and connection between the SBs based on the comprehensive trajectory and the SBs based on the citation diffusion trajectory.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

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Identifying the princes base on Altmetrics: An awakening mechanism of sleeping beauties from the perspective of social media

Hou

Zhang

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…In other fields, Altmetric scores have been more frequently associated with higher citation numbers and less frequently correlated with IF. [ 8 9 10 11 12 ] The correlation of the Altmetric score with other, more traditional bibliometrics within the pathology literature is unknown. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of the Altmetric Score with IF and citation number within the pathology literature.…”

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Examining the Relationship between Altmetric Score and Traditional Bibliometrics in the Pathology Literature

Floyd

Wiley

Boyd³

et al. 2021

Journal of Pathology Informatics

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Background: Recently, research data are increasingly shared through social media and other digital platforms. Traditionally, the influence of a scientific article has been assessed by the publishing journal's impact factor (IF) and its citation count. The Altmetric scoring system, a new bibliometric that integrates research “mentions” over digital media platforms, has emerged as a metric of online research distribution. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of the Altmetric Score with IF and citation number within the pathology literature. Methods: Citation count and Altmetric scores were obtained from the top 10 most-cited articles from the 15 pathology journals with the highest IF for 2013 and 2016. These variables were analyzed and correlated with each other, as well as the age of the publishing journal's Twitter account. Results: Three hundred articles were examined from the two cohorts. The total citation count of the articles decreased from 21,043 (2013) to 14,679 (2016), while the total Altmetric score increased from 830 (2013) to 4066 (2016). In 2013, Altmetric score weakly correlated with citation number ( r = 0.284, P < 0.001) but not with journal IF ( r = 0.024, P = 0.771). In 2016, there was strong correlation between citation count and Altmetric Score ( r = 0.714, P < 0.0001) but not the IF ( r = 0.0442, P = 0.591). Twitter was the single most important contributor to the Altmetric score; however, the age of the Twitter account was not associated with citation number nor Altmetric score. Conclusions: In the pathology literature studied, the Altmetric score correlates with article citation count, suggesting that the Altmetric score and conventional bibliometrics can be treated as complementary metrics. Given the trend towards increasing use of social media, additional investigation is warranted to evaluate the evolving role of social media metrics to assess the dissemination and impact of scientific findings in the field of pathology.

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“…Numerous articles over the last decade have shown that Tweets are a significant predictor of citations in non-specialty medical journals 13 . This is reflected in subspecialty journals also, where altmetrics are associated with inflated citation rates in the fields of cardiology 14 , emergency medicine 15 , gastroenterology 16 , general surgery 17,18 , paediatric surgery 19 , pain medicine 20 and urology 7 . This is particularly true for humorous or curious topics 7,21,22 .…”

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The Role of Social Media in Disseminating Plastic Surgery Research: The Relationship between Citations, Altmetrics and Article Characteristics

Grant

Scott-Bridge

Wade

2020

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Background: Social media (SoMe) enables publishers and authors to disseminate content immediately and directly to interested end-users, on a global scale. Alternative metrics (altmetrics) are non-traditional bibliometrics which describe the exposure and impact of an article on freely available platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and the news. Altmetrics are strongly associated with ultimate citation counts in various medical disciplines, except plastic surgery which represents the rational for this study. Methods: Altmetric explorer was used to extract altmetrics and citation rates for articles published during 2018 in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, the Annals of Plastics Surgery and Plastic Surgery (also known as Chirurgie Plastique). Multivariable negative binomial regression was used to estimate the relationship between citations and predictors (presented as the incidence rate ratio, IRR with 95% confidence interval, CI). Results: Overall, 1215 plastic surgery articles were captured which were cited 3269 times. There was a strong and independent association between the number of mentions in SoMe and the number of times an article was cited (adjusted IRR 1.01 [95% CI 1.01, 1.1]), whereby each mention in SoMe (e.g. Tweets or Facebook posts) translated to one additional citation. Evidence synthesis articles (e.g. systematic reviews) were cited twice as often as other articles and again, the use of SoMe to advertise these outputs was independently associated with more citations (IRR 2.0 [95% CI 1.3, 3.2]). Conclusions: Dissemination of plastic surgery research through social media channels increases an articles impact as measured by citations.

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Examining the Correlation Between Altmetric Score and Citations in the General Surgery Literature

Cited by 58 publications

References 7 publications

Identifying the princes base on Altmetrics: An awakening mechanism of sleeping beauties from the perspective of social media

Identifying the princes base on Altmetrics: An awakening mechanism of sleeping beauties from the perspective of social media

Examining the Relationship between Altmetric Score and Traditional Bibliometrics in the Pathology Literature

The Role of Social Media in Disseminating Plastic Surgery Research: The Relationship between Citations, Altmetrics and Article Characteristics

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