Abstract
AbstractIn this study, the top 1000 journals from Handelsblatt ranking (often used in German‐speaking countries) in Economics (E) and Business Studies (BS) as an extension of the two previous studies from Nuredini and Peters are explored. Moderate shares of articles from E and BS journals for publication years 2011–2018 are found in Mendeley (47%) and Altmetric.com (around 44%). This study shows that altmetric information is significantly higher in coverage for articles published between 2016 and 2017. The top 5 most used altmetric sources for E and BS journals are Twitter, News, Facebook, Blogs, and Policy documents. Top highly ranked journals (with classes A+ and A) in E from Handelsblatt ranking are highly mentioned in Altmetric.com, making them also popular in social media platforms (i.e., attention sources). Mendeley counts are positively correlated with citations both at the article and journal level.
Highlights
Ten years ago, a public declaration1 was made, which considered the rapid increase of scientific output and the growing number of researchers incorporating web tools into their work and suggested new impact filters for sifting scientific literature (Priem et al, 2010)
journal impact factor (JIF) developed by Science Citation Index (SCI), which is used to assess journal performance based on citations (Garfield, 1972), maintained from Clarivate Analytics,2 is by far the most debatable and a number of different limitations have been identified in its usage
Altmetric.com is explored for altmetric attention score, coverage, and different attention sources for the same articles retrieved from Crossref
Summary
A public declaration (manifesto) was made, which considered the rapid increase of scientific output and the growing number of researchers incorporating web tools into their work and suggested new impact filters for sifting scientific literature (Priem et al, 2010). The manifesto presented altmetrics as new indicators, which can be gathered from online scholarly tools (e.g., Mendeley) for different scientific outputs (e.g., articles, codes) and show another impact besides citations. JIF considers citations accumulated for articles published in a journal over a two-year period (Seglen, 1997). This two-year citation window only encapsulates the short-term impact of scientific articles and is suggested as problematic because it benefits mostly disciplines that gather citations faster than others (DORA3 declaration, Seglen, 1997; Larivière and Sugimoto, 2019).
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