Abstract
Background: Today, in addition to citations and with the expansion of social media, the use of altmetrics has gained attention as a tool necessary for evaluating the effects of scientific publications. The present study intended to monitor Iranian pediatrics articles, as one of the leading areas of scientific publications in Iran, between the years 2010-2016 using altmetrics and citation-metrics, and then evaluate the relationship between the altmetric score and number of received citations. Methods: This is a practical study of the analytical descriptive type and the research methodology is scientometrics. This research included 1332 research articles, review articles and conference articles in the field of pediatrics from Iran during 2010-2016, published in the Web of Science. Authors, year, journal and social media was determined in these articles. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS21 software and descriptive and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Spearman correlation). Results: A total of 1138 articles have citations and 256 articles had altmetric activity. The results indicate a significant correlation among the articles’ altmetric scores and number of received citations. Among the data sources of altmetric score, mentions of articles in Mendeley, Twitter, and Facebook had the highest ranking. The number of times an article was read in Mendeley had a significant correlation with the number of citations. Conclusions: It seems that altmetrics better represent the impact of newer articles, while older articles had received more citations. In addition, a high number of reads in Mendeley correlates with received citations. However, Mendeley reads do not involve altmetric score calculation algorithms, and this should be implemented in the future.
Highlights
Evaluating the impact of scientific publications is carried out using various methods
Citations and altmetric relating to authors, journals and year The findings suggest that among the articles, those by Bakhshayesh et al, Ajallouyean et al, and Rezai et al had the highest number of citations, and articles by Forouzanfar et al, Mirshemirani et al, and Farahani et al had the highest altmetric score (Table 2 and Table 3)
Based on the current research findings related to the direct relationship between altmetric score and scientific citations, as seen in previous research, it seems that alongside scientific citations, altmetrics can assist in better evaluation of the impact of scientific publications, especially for newer publications
Summary
Evaluating the impact of scientific publications is carried out using various methods. In addition to citations and with the expansion of social media, the use of altmetrics has gained attention as a tool necessary for evaluating the effects of scientific publications. The present study intended to monitor Iranian pediatrics articles, as one of the leading areas of scientific publications in Iran, between the years 2010-2016 using altmetrics and citation-metrics, and evaluate the relationship between the altmetric score and number of received citations. The results indicate a significant correlation among the articles’ altmetric scores and number of received citations. Among the data sources of altmetric score, mentions of articles in Mendeley, Twitter, and Facebook had the highest ranking. The number of times an article was read in Mendeley had a significant correlation with the number of citations. A high number of reads in Mendeley correlates with received citations. Mendeley reads do not involve altmetric score calculation algorithms, and this should be implemented in the future
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