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Title | ||
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Introducing the 'alt-index' for measuring the social visibility of scientific research. |
Abstract | ||
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We propose a new metric called ‘alt-index’, which is analagous to the h-index, but uses altmetrics data to measure both the volume and social media activity of scientific literature. The dataset includes over 1.1 million papers and their associated altmetrics score. A correlation analysis of the h-index and alt-index is conducted at three different levels: field level, source (journal) level, and author level. Our results show a strong positive correlation between the two indexes across all levels. We conclude that the alt-index can be adopted to measure the social activity of publications in situations where there is agreement amongst various social media channels. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1007/s11192-020-03447-z | Scientometrics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Alt-index, Altmetrics, H-index, Social media activity, Scientific research | Journal | 123 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3 | 0138-9130 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.35 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saeed-Ul Hassan | 1 | 164 | 23.66 |
| Sehrish Iqbal | 2 | 1 | 1.37 |
| Naif Radi Aljohani | 3 | 159 | 27.35 |
| Salem Alelyani | 4 | 1 | 0.35 |
| Alesia Zuccalá | 5 | 1 | 0.35 |