Exploring country's preference over news mentions to academic papers

Yu, Houqiang; Li, Longfei; Cao, Xueting; Chen, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2022.101347

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“…While fewer efforts have been devoted to studying news mentions, there is no shortage of research that delves into the nature of such mentions. For example, similarities between news outlets have been mapped based on common mentions (Ortega, 2021 ) and the dominance of local research in the news has been studied (Yu et al, 2022 ). On the other hand, Wikipedia mentions, one of the earliest altmetric sources (Nielsen, 2007 ), have been explored through multiple perspectives, for example to analyze their citation patterns (Maggio et al, 2017 ) and the differences between linguistic editions (Lewoniewski et al, 2017 ) or to map its collaborative knowledge structure (Arroyo-Machado et al, 2020 ).…”

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Evaluative altmetrics: is there evidence for its application to research evaluation?

Arroyo-Machado¹,

Torres-Salinas²

2023

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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IntroductionAltmetrics have been demonstrated as a promising tool for analyzing scientific communication on social media. Nevertheless, its application for research evaluation remains underdeveloped, despite the advancement of research in the study of diverse scientific interactions.MethodsThis paper develops a method for applying altmetrics in the evaluation of researchers, focusing on a case study of the Environment/Ecology ESI field publications by researchers at the University of Granada. We considered Twitter as a mirror of social attention, news outlets as media, and Wikipedia as educational, exploring mentions from these three sources and the associated actors in their respective media, contextualizing them using various metrics.ResultsOur analysis evaluated different dimensions such as the type of audience, local attention, engagement generated around the mention, and the profile of the actor. Our methodology effectively provided dashboards that gave a comprehensive view of the different instances of social attention at the author level.DiscussionThe use of altmetrics for research evaluation presents significant potential, as shown by our case study. While this is a novel method, our results suggest that altmetrics could provide valuable insights into the social attention that researchers garner. This can be an important tool for research evaluation, expanding our understanding beyond traditional metrics.

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