Altmetrics and Citation Metrics as Complementary Indicators for Research Management

Abstract

The quality and impact of scholarly articles are traditionally evaluated using metrics that put citation counts at the center. In the era of digitization, advanced online platforms and social media have transformed the dissemination of scientific information results and introduced new metrics for evaluating the influence of scholarly outputs and planning research studies. Alternative metrics (altmetrics) have emerged as tools for immediate measuring of scholarly outputs upon their online publication and dissemination through numerous online platforms, including social media channels. The Altmetrtic Attention Score by Altmetric.com has gained its global importance as an integral indicator for evaluation of constantly changing societal influence of individual articles. To a large extent, this and other social media metrics complement established citation metrics, allowing to visualize and predict implications at early stages of post-publication promotion. This article overviews characterstics of various altmetric tools and their growing roles for planning and evaluating scientific research.

Toxoplasmosis and Schizophrenia Publication Activity in 1991-2023: A Web of Science-Based Bibliometric Analysis

“…More than 90% of the articles were in English, demonstrating once again that English is the most widely used academic language globally. This finding was similar to data from previous bibliometric studies [21,30,31,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…It's useful to examine the characteristics of international peer-reviewed journals to comprehend current trends [21,30,31,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Considering that toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease and schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, it can be expected that most of the articles will be published in journals dealing with psychiatry and parasitology.…”

Influence of Citation Practices on Academic Assessment

“…metrics [13][14][15] to complement traditional author and journal metrics and thus achieve a better evaluation of the scientific and societal influence of research. These new article-level metrics or alternative metrics (for short, altmetrics), which include downloads, views, and social media impact, are increasingly gaining prominence [13][14][15].…”