Graphical and video abstracts are not associated with increased Altmetric attention score or citations in sport science.

Bennett, Hunter; Slattery, Flynn

doi:10.51224/srxiv.147

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“…Like citations, there is little agreement when looking at effect of GAs on Altmetric attention score in the published research, with one study reporting a negative association (Bennett & Slattery, 2022), one no association (Aggarwal, 2021), and a positive association (Kim et al, 2022), which aligns with the findings of the present study. Although it is important to highlight that while there are only three published studies examining the association between of GAs with Altmetric attention scores, there is small body of research exploring their effect on native Twitter-based metrics, unanimously finding positive effects.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…The effect of GAs on citation counts is unclear, largely due to the conflicting results presented in the research, with some studies reporting a negative association (Aggarwal, 2021;Bennett & Slattery, 2022;Pferschy-Wenzig et al, 2016), the present study no association, and one a positive association (Kim et al, 2022). Why GAs would have a negative effect on citations is unclear, but Pferschy-Wenzig et al ( 2016) provided potential explanations (Pferschy-Wenzig et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 63%

“…Manuscripts published in Molecules between March 2014 and March 2015 without a GA performed significantly better in terms of article downloads, abstract views, and total citations than manuscripts with a GA. Aggarwal (2021) explored this topic across three medical journals, also finding no significant differences between articles with and without GAs on Altmetric attention score and number of page views, although articles without a GA attracted more citations (Aggarwal, 2021). A recently published pre-print using a cross-sectional design demonstrated that articles published with a GA were associated with lower Altmetric attention scores and citations counts than those published with a GA in three high ranking sport science journals (Bennett & Slattery, 2022). Lastly, Kim et al (2022) found that articles published with a GA in the top ten journals in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology were associated with higher Altmetric attention scores and citations than those published without (Kim et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within this, they also found that papers published without GAs received more citations than those published with GAs. The authors of the current study published a non-peer reviewed pre-print exploring whether citations and Altmetric attention scores differed between articles published with and without GAs in three quartile one (Q1) sport science journals (Bennett & Slattery, 2022). Like Aggarwal (2021), articles with a GA were associated with lower citations, and lower Altmetric attention scores, than those published without a GA (Bennett & Slattery, 2022).…”

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“…The authors of the current study published a non-peer reviewed pre-print exploring whether citations and Altmetric attention scores differed between articles published with and without GAs in three quartile one (Q1) sport science journals (Bennett & Slattery, 2022). Like Aggarwal (2021), articles with a GA were associated with lower citations, and lower Altmetric attention scores, than those published without a GA (Bennett & Slattery, 2022). Conversely, Kim et al (2022) found that articles published with a GA in the top ten journals in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology were associated with higher Altmetric attention scores and citations than those published without (Kim et al, 2022).…”

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Graphical abstracts are associated with greater Altmetric attention scores, but not citations, in sport science

Bennett

Slattery

2023

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This paper aimed to determine if papers published with a Graphical abstract (GA) in the sport science field were associated with higher Altmetric attention scores and more citations than papers published without. A multivariate negative binomial mixed effects model was used to determine whether Altmetric attention scores and citation counts were different between articles published with or without a GA longitudinally over five timepoints. Included articles were published between January 2019 and December 2020 from three journals ranked within the top quartile of the category of “Sport Science”. Of 562 articles, 96 were published with a GA. Articles with GA were associated with higher Altmetric attention score than those without (incidence rate ratio 1.89 [95% confidence interval [CI] 1.25–2.85]; p = 0.003; small effect), with no difference in citations (incidence rate ratio 0.97 [95% CI 0.72–1.30]; p = 0.829; trivial effect). This study suggests that publishing with a GA is associated with increased Altmetric attention scores, but not citations, in sport science. This may indicate that GAs improve research dissemination amongst the public, which is important in practical fields.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%