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

Ortega, José Luís

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2021.101175

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“…The media world “is a fundamental instrument to the transfer of scientific results to [the] society, being clear intermediaries between academics and the general public” (Ortega, 2021). Previous work has reported mainstream news mentions are predictive of academic impact, as measured through an author's h‐index (Timilsina et al, 2016), with a strong relationship existing between news sharing and social media (Kümpel et al, 2015), which can foster audience engagement with research.…”

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Predictors of societal and professional impact of Endodontology research articles: A multivariate scientometric analysis

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Rossi‐Fedele

2022

Int Endodontic J

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Aim To identify factors that are predictive of short‐term professional and societal impact of research within the specialty of Endodontology and to identify the top‐10 articles that achieved the greatest societal impact and describe their characteristics. Methodology Research articles in the field of Endodontology published in 2019 were eligible for inclusion, with the sample identified using Medline. Following screening of titles and abstracts, bibliometric data of the identified articles were exported into a spreadsheet, where further data related to continental origin, type of article, type of journal (endodontic or non‐endodontic) and grant‐funding were collated, with additional data concerning presence of journal impact factor, citations, news mentions and Altmetric‐tracked‐mentions and scores compiled using Clarivate, Scopus, ProQuest and Altmetric Explorer, respectively. Data analysis comprised descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, cross‐tabulations and un/adjusted negative binomial regression models (p < .05). Results The search retrieved 30 443 articles; 951 were included for analysis. Most articles originated from Asia (43.2%) with over 51.5% of articles published in endodontic journals and 80% published in a journal with an impact factor. Over three‐quarters of articles were primary research, 141 were grant‐funded, 165 had a news mention, 338 achieved an Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) and 808 were cited. The five‐highest ranked articles were mentioned in general news bulletins, five of the top‐10 articles were primary research and six of the top‐10 were published in endodontic journals. The highest AAS and citation count were 100 and 87, respectively. Adjusted models demonstrated that the type of article, publication in a journal with an impact factor, absence of grant‐funding and coverage within general news bulletins predicted the AAS 's (p < .001). Article type, publication in an impact‐factor journal and presence of an AAS were predictive of citations (p < .001). Conclusions Article type and publication in a journal with an impact factor were significant predictors of both societal and professional impact of research articles within Endodontology in the short‐term. Non grant‐funded research and coverage in general news bulletins achieved greater societal impact, whereas an article achieving an AAS was also strongly related to professional impact.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Predictors of societal and professional impact of Endodontology research articles: A multivariate scientometric analysis

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Rossi‐Fedele

2022

Int Endodontic J

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“…These news publications were selected for their science and health focus, as well as their representation of the changing media landscape (i.e., The Guardian and New York Times as traditional, legacy news organizations; Popular Science and Wired as historically print-only science magazines; News Medical and MedPage Today as digital native health sites; and HealthDay and IFLScience as niche science and health blogs). In addition, of all the news sources Altmetric tracks, general-interest and specialized health outlets such as these also appear to cover the most research (Ortega, 2021). Between March and May 2021, we used a custombuilt web-crawler to read the RSS and Twitter feeds of these sites to identify 5172 articles and associated metadata (i.e., URLs, dates of publication, authors, article titles; Enkhbayar, 2022).…”

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“…More recently, and more relevant to this study, a series of studies by Ortega (2019aOrtega ( , 2020bOrtega ( , 2021 have raised concerns about the quality of Altmetric's news mention data in particular. Although Altmetric appears to collect more mentions of research in news stories than other providers, it does so for a smaller proportion of research items (e.g., peerreviewed papers, preprints, monographs, clinical trials) and sometimes categorizes sources as both blogs and news, resulting in overlaps in event data (Ortega, 2019b).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to these concerns, Altmetric appears to be biased towards news outlets that are published in English, based in English-speaking countries, and focused on general-interest issues, although its news data are still less biased than that of its competitors, PlumX and CED (Ortega, 2020a , 2021 ). In fact, news mention data gathered from different providers can differ widely; one study found that the Spearman correlation of Altmetric’s news data and that of its competitor, PlumX, was only 0.11 (Meschede & Siebenlist, 2018 ).…”

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Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data

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The company Altmetric is often used to collect mentions of research in online news stories, yet there have been concerns about the quality of this data. This study investigates these concerns. Using a manual content analysis of 400 news stories as a comparison method, we analyzed the precision and recall with which Altmetric identified mentions of research in 8 news outlets. We also used logistic regression to identify the characteristics of research mentions that influence their likelihood of being successfully identified. We find that, for a predefined set of outlets, Altmetric’s news mention data were relatively accurate (F-score = 0.80), with very high precision (0.95) and acceptable recall (0.70), although recall is below 0.50 for some news outlets. Altmetric is more likely to successfully identify mentions of research that include a hyperlink to the research item, an author name, and/or the title of a publication venue. This data source appears to be less reliable for mentions of research that provide little or no bibliometric information, as well as for identifying mentions of scholarly monographs, conference presentations, dissertations, and non-English research articles. Our findings suggest that, with caveats, scholars can use Altmetric news mention data as a relatively reliable source to identify research mentions across a range of outlets with high precision and acceptable recall, offering scholars the potential to conserve resources during data collection. Our study does not, however, offer an assessment of completeness or accuracy of Altmetric news data overall. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11192-022-04510-7.

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“…Este es un problema sobre todo cuando se puede ocultar la actualidad de las fuentes bibliográficas, porque en estos grandes grupos de citas se pueden incluir las referencias más actualizadas. Por ello el cálculo porcentual de las fuentes bibliográficas no siempre es un indicador de actualidad y por ello es importante determinarlo de otra manera (Ortega, 2021).…”

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análisis de la citación de artículos científicos en las tesis de doctorado en Ciencias Pedagógicas de la Universidad de Matanzas

Hernández

2023

Rev. Interam. Bibliot.

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La citación de artículos en la producción científica es un indicador de calidad importante, como se demuestra en los primeros momentos de este documento. En él, se define la citación efectiva como una vía para evaluar la actualidad de la tesis a partir de las referencias utilizadas. Se estudia la citación efectiva de los artículos científicos y las diferencias con las medidas de citación utilizadas hasta el momento en las tesis de doctorado en Ciencias Pedagógicas de la Universidad de Matanzas, defendidas en el periodo 2017-2019. El estudio se realiza a partir del método de análisis documental. Los resultados obtenidos se organizan en forma de tablas y gráficas que permiten ilustrar las dificultades encontradas en las tesis. La principal dificultad está en el pobre número de citas de artículos científicos de las principales bases de datos del mundo, relacionadas con la temática de la tesis. Para finalizar, se contrastan los resultados obtenidos con otras investigaciones y se evidencia el poco uso de bibliografía obtenida de las principales bases de datos en las investigaciones doctorales en Ciencias Pedagógicas de la Universidad de Matanzas.

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

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Predictors of societal and professional impact of Endodontology research articles: A multivariate scientometric analysis

Predictors of societal and professional impact of Endodontology research articles: A multivariate scientometric analysis

Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data

análisis de la citación de artículos científicos en las tesis de doctorado en Ciencias Pedagógicas de la Universidad de Matanzas

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