Investigating the Presence of Highly Cited Articles on Chronic Diseases in Scientific Social Network: Altmetrics Study Publisher



Bandboni ME¹ ; Ramezanipakpourlangeroudi F² ; Fallahmortezanejad S³ ; Ramezani A⁴
Source: Jundishapur Journal of Chronic Disease Care Published:2019

Abstract

Background: The Clarivate Analytics Company defined the highly cited papers used to measure scientific performance. Altmetrics is a new indicator for evaluation of academic research, which evaluates the findings of research published on social networks. Objectives: This study aimed at evaluating the Altmetrics indicators of highly cited articles on chronic diseases in the two social networks of ResearchGate and Mendeley. Methods: This descriptive-cross sectional study was carried out using the scientometric method. The research data were collected during October 2018 by using Excel 2013 software. HistCite™ and VOSviewer were used as scientometric software. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19 through non-parametric statistical tests, such as Spearman and chi-square tests. The significance level was P < 0.05. Results: According to the findings, the coverage rate of highly cited articles on chronic diseases on ResearchGate is about 96.5%, which is better than Mendeley with 92.4%. There was a significant relationship between citation with presence in social networks of research gate and Mendeley (P < 0.05). Each paper indexed in ResearchGate has been read on average by 318.73 individuals. In comparison with that, every paper in Mendeley has been read by 185.76 people, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the number of citations in the Web of Science and “Read” rate of the papers in ResearchGate (0.207) and Mendeley (0.343) (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Altmetric indicators evaluated activities in social media space. Increasing the presence of chronic diseases papers in social networks can actively influence dissemination of knowledge. © 2019, Jundishapur Journal of Chronic Disease Care.