Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
University of Wolverhampton · Science-Metrix (Canada) · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either impact or utility although a few case studies have reported medium correlations between specific altmetrics and citation rates for individual journals or fields. To fill this gap, this study compares 11 altmetrics with Web of Science citations for 76 to 208,739 PubMed articles with at least one altmetric mention in each case and up to 1,891 journals per metric. It also introduces a simple sign test to overcome biases caused by different citation and usage windows.…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 80.81
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 50
Authors
4Topics & keywords
- Altmetrics
- Citation
- Social media
- Metric (unit)
- Bibliometrics
- Mainstream
- Computer science
- Data science
- Quality Education