Do altmetric correlate with citation? : A study based on PLOS ONE journal

Syamili, C.; Rekha, R.V.

doi:10.1080/09737766.2016.1260815

Cited by 15 publications

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“…This finding matches with those observed in earlier studies. Furthermore, this finding is in agreement with a study conducted by Syamili & Rekha (2017) which showed altmetrics attentions have a positive correlation with citations. Researchers can further investigate the correlation between citation count and Altmetrics Attention Score in other disciplines.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…A study on PLOS one journal revealed that apart from Twitter other altmetrics attentions have a positive correlation with citations (Syamili & Rekha, 2017). Altmetrics measures to evaluate humanities research publications showed similar problems while applying bibliometrics measures to humanities like the prominence of non-journal publications, coverage of non-English language publications, etc.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Correlation between the Altmetrics Attention Score (AAS) and the Citation Count (CC): A study based on highly cited breast cancer articles

Jayasekara

Abu

2020

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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Measuring the impact of a research publication is a vital factor in the scholarly world. Citation count is a single dimension of measuring the impact of a scholarly publication. However, the evolution of the Internet has changed the ways of accessing research publications and research communication. As a result of the Internet, altmetric became a popular tool to measure the research impact. The objective of the article is to identify the correlations between Citation Count and Altmetrics Attention Score based on the top 100 highly cited articles available in the Web of Science database. The scholarly publications related to breast cancer published in 2014 were selected as the target population. Web of Science database was used to collect the bibliographic information and citation count of the highly cited articles. The keyword "Breast Cancer" was used in the 'title' field of WoS and the search was limited to open access journal articles. The search results were arranged according to the times cited from highest to lowest and ranked according to the citation count. The articles within the top 100 rankings according to the citation count were selected as the sample of this study. Altmetrics bookmarklet was used to collect the Altmetrics Attention Scores of the selected articles. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20 software and Microsoft Excel. Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between Citation Count and Altmetrics Attention Score. The study revealed that there is a positive correlation (r s = .552, p < 0.01) between the Citation Count and the Altmetrics Attention Score.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Correlation between the Altmetrics Attention Score (AAS) and the Citation Count (CC): A study based on highly cited breast cancer articles

Jayasekara

Abu

2020

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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“…This score tracks online references to scholarly articles and is determined by the volume of mentions, the sources of mentions, and the authors of mentions. The Altmetric score is a useful indicator of broader interest in the work beyond the academic world and has been suggested to be a predictor of use within the academic world as indicated by subsequent citations (Syamili and Rekha 2017; Thelwall and Nevill 2018; Robinson et al 2021). Moreover, because this score is updated in short increments (i.e., daily), it can provide immediate information on the attention an article is receiving, and how this is changing over time.…”

Section: Figmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maximizing Your Next Research Article's Discoverability—and Altmetric Score

Falkenberg

2021

Limnology & Oceanogr Bull

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“…For example, articles with more provocative or attractive titles may have higher online social impact values, and not due to their intrinsic scientific quality (Poplašen & Grgić, 2016). Even within the scientific field there are differences, for example, and articles in the scientific area of social sciences, humanities, medical and life sciences tend to have the highest values (Syamili & Rekha, 2017).…”

Section: Digital Media Social Attention -Altmetricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The complementary combination of varied metrics that assess beyond the scientific impact through the number of citations of an article, for example, being aware that what they measure is not the same, emerges as an intrinsic need of rigor in this domain of the kind of individual, but also institutional, impact of the digital scholarly communication (Syamili & Rekha, 2017;Liu & Adie, 2013;Poplašen & Grgić, 2016). Furthermore, there is the need for a quantitative but also a qualitative analysis, in order to have a better understanding of the impact in question, as well as of its reasons (Liu & Adie, 2013).…”

Section: Digital Media Social Attention -Altmetricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Visibility, Social Networks and Glamorous Scientific Publications

Ferreira¹,

Serpa²

2018

IJSSS

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In a context of transformation of the higher education institutions’ mission, there is a growing need for the academy to respond to the needs placed both at the political and social levels, which has implications for the scholar’s expected activity. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growing importance, besides publishing and being cited, of having visibility in the digital world. We conclude that this new dimension, which is being added to the success and legitimacy of the scholar and his/her institution, will have probable direct consequences both on the form and on the contents of future publications. The willingness of scholars to produce publications worthy of social visibility may foster a growing number of publications that are attractive, perhaps less complex and more accessible to the “uninitiated”, what we call glamorous publications.

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Do altmetric correlate with citation? : A study based on PLOS ONE journal

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Correlation between the Altmetrics Attention Score (AAS) and the Citation Count (CC): A study based on highly cited breast cancer articles

Correlation between the Altmetrics Attention Score (AAS) and the Citation Count (CC): A study based on highly cited breast cancer articles

Maximizing Your Next Research Article's Discoverability—and Altmetric Score

Online Visibility, Social Networks and Glamorous Scientific Publications

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