Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Scientometrics |
Volume | 123 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 1407-1419 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISSN | 0138-9130 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2020 |
- Alt-index, Altmetrics, H-index, Scientific research, Social media activity
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