Altmetrics Research Articles

P09.34 Curating Online Journal Clubs to Advance Global Oncology Lung Cancer Care

Introduction: Osler developed the 1st journal club in 1875 to reduce financial barriers to keeping up with global medical progress Journal clubs have since become a widely accessible tool to improve patient safety & quality care However, maintaining competence today is limited by exponentially increasing complexity & volume while resources stay siloed In response the “#RadOnc” Twitter journal club was created in 2014 to accelerate knowledge translation across boundaries Its lung cancer projects have included discussions on globally relevant articles, dual hashtags, & crowdsourced summaries to enhance to enhance clinical knowledge, online communication, & critical appraisal Methods: We reviewed data from the journal club since 2014 The format included free article access, a weekend-long asynchronous chat, & a live hour including article authors Targeted invitations were sent prior with introductions posted to a blog Curated open-access summaries were created using Wakelet to facilitate discussions & allow future referencing Dual hashtags (#RadOnc #jc) were tested in 2020 Single & dual hashtag data from January & February was analyzed and compared against chat transcripts to determine if dual hashtags appropriately focused content Selected chats of immediate relevance were thematically analyzed for publication to guide local standards of practice Results: Fifteen chats (37% ) had direct relevance to lung cancer (including palliative/supportive care, SCLC, & NSCLC) with all attended by article authors The most recent lung cancer chat had 496 tweets & 2 9 million impressions Altmetric scores ranged from 15 to 227 (top 5%) We identified 1853 tweets with “# RadOnc” and 1256 (68%) used “#RadOnc #jc” Dual hashtags were used by 122/558 (22%) Participants spanned 13 countries (radiation oncologists (54/122, 44%), trainees (15/122, 12%), other physicians (9/122, 7%), patients (5/122, 4%), physicists (2/122, 2%), & radiation therapists (1/122, 1%)) Chats averaged 19 dual hashtag tweets/hr compared to 9 other “#radonc” tweets/hr (p=0 036) Most dual hashtag content was related to the journal club (542/542 for January & 713/714 for February) Two recent chats resulted in publications in academic journals Conclusion: #RadOnc #jc has overcome limitations of traditional journal clubs & remained at the forefront of changing online practices to sustainably facilitate active global lung cancer discussions This includes use of dual hashtags that are feasible to filter conversations & enable a chat within the hashtag of a growing community of practice It has nurtured diverse perspectives including multidisciplinary experts, patients, & trainees from HICs & LMICs for rich digitized peer review & discussion This informed the publication of the first crowdsourced global oncology guidelines for the COVID19 pandemic & emerging standard techniques for SCLC Aggregation through Wakelet summaries may further reduce the reading burden Together, #RadOnc #jc is becoming a platform for rapid knowledge translation & creation by encouraging & amplifying the voices of the global oncology community through crowdsourcing, rapid review, and open-access publication We continue to assess its outcomes for quality improvement including reviewing our lung cancer specific data, chat metrics, author & article impact, & engagement including feedback from all stakeholders working towards improving cancer care Keywords: Social Media, global oncology, Medical Education

Making an impact: How Altmetric tells researchers more about their work

Making an impact: How Altmetric tells researchers more about their work

Impacto acadêmico e atenção on-line de pesquisas sobre inteligência artificial na área da saúde: análise de dados bibliométricos e altmétricos

Objetivo: A inteligência artificial, como campo interdisciplinar, tem sua literatura presente em diversas áreas do conhecimento e suas aplicações têm oferecido importantes contribuições para os campos científicos que a ela se dedicam. Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar a produção científica sobre inteligência artificial em artigos científicos de acesso aberto na área da saúde e compreender seus indicadores de impacto. Método: Trata-se de pesquisa descritiva, exploratória e quantitativa, que utiliza técnicas bibliométricas e altmétricas em complementaridade, a fim de averiguar o impacto acadêmico por meio dos dados de citações e a atenção on-line pelas menções encontradas nas fontes da Web Social. Os dados da produção e suas métricas de citação foram obtidos em consultas a Dimensions; e os dados altmétricos recuperados via Altmetric Explorer. Resultado: Ao todo foram analisados 3.121 artigos publicados entre 2014 e 2019. A distribuição temporal demonstrou-se crescente, tendo 2019 a maior concentração de artigos. O impacto acadêmico registrou cobertura de 70,81% dos artigos com dados de citações e, para a visibilidade, 61,93% obtiveram dados altmétricos referentes às menções na Web Social. As citações são frequentes em artigos antigos e a atenção on-line é maior para publicações recentes. As mídias sociais são as fontes com maior quantidade de menções, seguidas pelos portais de notícias e blogs. Conclusões: Considera-se que, ao complementar os estudos métricos tradicionais, como os bibliométricos e de citação, a altmetria e seus indicadores alternativos possibilitam uma compreensão considerada mais ampla do real impacto causado pelas produções científicas.

Russian Pattern of Altmetrics Usage based on SCI-E Statistics

Russian Pattern of Altmetrics Usage based on SCI-E Statistics

Altmetrics: A new paradigm for scholarly communication.

Counting citations have been the usual norm to determine the impact of any research and/or scholar. However, with majority of the scholarly activities happening on the World Wide Web, traditional counting of citations is now being termed "slower." The recent explosion of online data storage for many articles may serve as a pool which uses social media sites to navigate. Altmetrics has been proposed as the new entity which aims to change the focus of the scholarly reward system to value and encourage web-native scholarship. This paper makes an attempt to understand altmetrics.

Cita periodística: impacto de las revistas y los artículos científicos en la prensa generalista

Las citas periodisticas de revistas, autores y articulos cientificos se han utilizado avant la letre para estudiar el impacto de la ciencia en la prensa generalista y algunas caracteristicas del periodismo cientifico. En este articulo se revisa el estado de la cuestion y se perfilan los conceptos de cita periodistica e impacto mediatico por analogia con los de cita cientifica e impacto cientifico, estableciendo sus similitudes y diferencias. Se analizan las posibilidades de investigacion que ofrece el recuento de citas periodisticas y el desarrollo de indicadores del impacto mediatico de la ciencia. El analisis de citas periodisticas presenta ventajas frente a las metricas alternativas o altmetricas, pues la prensa es el principal productor de noticias y ofrece un producto mas consolidado y con un filtro profesional. Tambien presenta limitaciones, principalmente por la falta de una base de datos de citas periodisticas de las revistas cientificas en la prensa generalista internacional.

Altmétricas a nivel institucional: visibilidad en la Web de la producción científica de las universidades españolas a partir de Altmetric.com

Este estudio se centra en las publicaciones de las universidades espanolas en la Web of Science (WoS) durante 2014-2016 (125.824 articulos) y calcula 17 indicadores con Altmetric.com. Se han establecido tres objetivos: 1) ofrecer una perspectiva general de las altmetricas en las universidades espanolas, 2) determinar la cobertura de Altmetric.com en el caso espanol y 3) establecer cuales son las altmetricas mas relevantes. Los resultados evidencian que el 42% de los articulos en la WoS estan indexados en Altmetric.com. Los indicadores generados por Twitter, prensa digital, Facebook y Wikipedia explican el 82% de la varianza. Como conclusiones se senalan que: a) publicar en revistas de alto impacto y en areas como Medicina y Biologia contribuye a que las universidades obtengan mejores altmetricas; y b) un numero reducido de indicadores es suficiente para determinar el impacto altmetrico.

Discussion: Alternative Metrics of Scholarly Output: The Relationship among Altmetric Score, Mendeley Reader Score, Citations, and Downloads in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Discussion: Alternative Metrics of Scholarly Output: The Relationship among Altmetric Score, Mendeley Reader Score, Citations, and Downloads in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

The impact of open access on the medical literature: a review of current literature

Background : the aim of the article is to conduct an overview of the impact of OA on the medical articles based on 3-part categorization. Methods : Data were identified by a search strategy with eight combinations of keywords (open access, citation impact, citation advantage, citation count, article download, article usage, social media attention, altmetrics) and searched in three different databases. Results : the analysis was conducted on 107 studies dealing with citations, downloads and social impact. Sixty-seven of them simply employed the counting citations to OA and non-OA articles; nineteen articles compared the downloads and citations counts; and twenty-one articles investigated the social impact of OA articles. Twenty-five articles investigated the citations, download counts, and social impact of medical articles. Conclusions : The studies investigating the citation impact mostly showed citation advantages. Those that employed citation and download counts of medical articles using randomized controlled trials showed that OA articles were downloaded significantly more frequently, but found no evidence of a citation advantage for open access articles. The citation advantage from open access might be caused by other factors. Results of the studies comparing the social media attention and citations/downloads of the medical articles are often diametrically opposed.

Who are Tweeting Research Articles and Why

The purpose of this paper is to understand the profiles of users and their motivations in sharing research articles on Twitter. The goal is to contribute to the understanding of Twitter as a new altmetric measure for assessing impact of research articles. In this paper, we extended the previous study of tweet motivations by finding out the profiles of twitter users. In particular, we examined six characteristics of users: gender, geographic distribution, academic, non-academic, individual, and organization. Out of several, we would like to highlight here three key findings. First, a great majority of users (86%) were from North America and Europe indicating the possibility that, if in general, tweets for research articles are mainly in English, Twitter as an alternative metric has a Western bias. Second, several previous altmetrics studies suggested that tweets, and altmetrics in general, do not indicate scholarly impact due to their low correlation with citation counts. This study provides further details in this aspect by revealing that most tweets (77%) were by individual users, 67% of whom were nonacademic. Therefore, tweets mostly reflect impact of research articles on the general public, rather than on academia. Finally, analysis from profiles and motivations showed that the majority of tweets (from 42% to 57%) in all user types highlighted the summary or findings of the article indicating that tweets are a new way of communicating research findings.

学術研究のメディア報道における定量的調査研究 －プレスリリースと原論文、オルトメトリックスとの関連分析－

我々はこれまで大学に関連したプレスリリースを調査しており、それが近年大幅に増加し、それに対応して新聞への掲載も増加していることがわかってきた。2012年に大学関連機関から発行されたプレスリリースの元になった学術論文のDOIを特定し、オルトメトリックスを得た。本発表ではプレスリリースされた原論文のオルトメトリックス、新聞掲載状況との関係等について分析、考察を行う。

An Analysis of the Accumulation State and the Validity of User Readership Data in Online Reference Managers ——Take the Indicators of Altmetrics as an Example

An Analysis of the Accumulation State and the Validity of User Readership Data in Online Reference Managers ——Take the Indicators of Altmetrics as an Example

Altmetrics – a new role for library and information professionals

Altmetrics – a new role for library and information professionals

Alternative metrics in scientometrics

Alternative metrics are currently one of the most popular research topics in scientometric research. This paper provides an overview of research into three of the most important altmetrics: microbl...

Using altmetrics and citation counts to assess the social and academic impact of Medecins Sans Frontieres publications

Using altmetrics and citation counts to assess the social and academic impact of Medecins Sans Frontieres publications

Current Trends in Webometrics Research

Webometrics is the quantitative analysis of Web phenomena. The growth of Web technologies has opened new avenues for Web researchers for measurement and analyses of the phenomenon. Webometrics is traditionally used for quantifying Web data related to footprints of researchers or institutions on the Web measured in terms of their research publications and other parameters. The paper looks at the recent developments in webometrics research in light of emergence of social Web and big data, and their applications in new research fronts and future perspective of webometrics research. The paper also discusses about the recent developments in research techniques in webometrics such as query splitting and virtual memetics in the social network sites. It is observed that the growth of Web technologies has possibly posed new challenges for traditional citation databases which have been extensively used so far for measuring research impact of universities, institutions or individual researchers. The new trend has shown that impact measures are in the verge of acceptance as new method for measurement of academic and research contributions. One notable example for this is altmetrics. In the nutshell the paper gives an overview of the emerging trends and impact measuring techniques used in webometrics research.

Altmetrics: Too soon for use in assessment

Altmetrics: Too soon for use in assessment

Key Issue - Scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics: some introductory advice for the lost and bemused

Key Issue - Scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics: some introductory advice for the lost and bemused

From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape

From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape

Altmetrics: alternative ways of measuring scholarly impact based on the social web

Altmetrics: alternative ways of measuring scholarly impact based on the social web