Availability and Audit of Links in Altmetric Data Providers: Link Checking of Blogs and News in &lt;a href="https://www.altmetric.com/"&gt;Altmetric.com&lt;/a&gt;, Crossref Event Data and PlumX

Ortega, José Luís

doi:10.29024/joa.14

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“… Blog citations count (usually) scientific blogs translating research papers for a general audience (Shema et al ., 2015). This is probably a public interest indicator (Shema et al ., 2014) that can be generated by automated search engine queries and filtering, to a limited extent. News citations count news stories in specified news websites that cite a given academic journal (Kousha and Thelwall, 2019) or papers (Ortega, 2019). This is a public or media interest indicator that can be generated by automated search engine queries and filtering.…”

Section: Alternative Indicators: Altmetrics and Webometricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Societal Impacts of Research With Altmetrics? Common Problems and Mistakes

Thelwall

2020

Journal of Economic Surveys

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The impact agenda in many countries has led to increased attempts to assess the societal impacts of research. Altmetrics, webometrics, and other alternative indicators have been proposed to support this task, and many journal articles have been written that exploit alternative indicators to investigate societal impacts. Nevertheless, methodological studies of many of these indicators have revealed that extreme care must be taken with gathering, aggregating, and interpreting them. This article gives an overview of current alternative indicators, summarizes empirical research, and reports a series of common problems and mistakes to avoid when using them. The main issues are: selecting indicators to match goals; aggregating them in a way sensitive to field and publication year differences; largely avoiding them in formal evaluations; understanding that they reflect a biased fraction of the activity of interest; and understanding the type of impact reflected rather than interpreting them at face value.

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Section: Alternative Indicators: Altmetrics and Webometricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Societal Impacts of Research With Altmetrics? Common Problems and Mistakes

Thelwall

2020

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…There are several competing companies which track and transform altmetrics including: Plum Analytics (PlumX), Altmetrics, ImpactStory and more. Data produced by Altmetric are more accurate long-term whilst PlumX metrics are more accurate when articles have zero-reads or one-read-only, as measured by Mendeley 26,27 . We decided that long-term count accuracy was most important so elected to use Altmetrics, although researchers should consider extracting data from both Altmetric and PlumX platforms for comparison.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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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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“…This list was extended from 4,000 sites to more than 10,000 blogs thanks to an agreement with ACI Scholarly Blog Index in 2016 ( Parkhill, 2016 ). However, this company ceased trading and many links were broken ( Ortega, 2019b ). Altmetric.com has always curated an own list of roughly 15,000 blogs ( Altmetric.com, 2020b ), although this information is not publicly available.…”

Section: Blogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This collaboration makes possible that Altmetric.com gathers mentions from more than 80,000 news outlets, in addition to the list of 1,300 news already curated by its own service ( Williams, 2015 ). However, Lexis-Nexis acquired this company in 2014 and the collaboration ended, leaving 19% of the links inactive ( Ortega, 2019b ). Now, Altmetric.com monitor more than 5,000 news outlets ( Altmetric.com, 2020b ).…”

Section: Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Availability and Audit of Links in Altmetric Data Providers: Link Checking of Blogs and News in <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/">Altmetric.com</a>, Crossref Event Data and PlumX

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Measuring Societal Impacts of Research With Altmetrics? Common Problems and Mistakes

Measuring Societal Impacts of Research With Altmetrics? Common Problems and Mistakes

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

How do media mention research papers? Structural analysis of blogs and news networks using citation coupling

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