ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2017
Altmetrics - A Collated Adjunct Beyond Citations for Scholarly Impact: A Systematic Review.
Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What are the variables associated with Altmetric scores?Systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- The Use of Social Media to Increase the Impact of Health Research: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
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- The impact of low back pain systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines measured by the Altmetric score: Cross-Sectional study.Brazilian journal of physical therapyPooled it
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- Correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation scores across the high impact-factor journals each in Medicine, Surgery, and Anaesthesia.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
- Impact of a Fulbright award: A bibliometric analysis of persistence.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- Which Topics Drive Dissemination? Alternative Bibliometrics Analysis of the Highest-Ranking Articles in 3 Infectious Diseases Journals Before COVID-19.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Assessment of the Dissemination of COVID-19-Related Articles Across Social Media: Altmetrics Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Relationship of Altmetric Attention Score, Twitter Performance, and Dimensions Badge Value With Traditional Metrics in Top-Cited Anterior Cruciate Ligament Research Studies.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- The Altmetric Attention Score Is Associated With Citation Rates and May Reflect Academic Impact in the Total Joint Arthroplasty Literature.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2023Article
- Video abstracts are associated with an increase in research reports citations, views and social attention: a cross-sectional study.Scientometrics · 2023Article
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- Scientometric Analysis of the Top 50 Most-Cited Joint Arthroplasty Papers: Traditional vs Altmetric Measures.Arthroplasty today · 2022Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis of the Landscape of Pediatric Liver Transplantation.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Harnessing the True Power of Altmetrics to Track Engagement.Journal of Korean medical science · 2021Article
- Assessing the Dissemination of COVID-19 Articles Across Social Media With Altmetric and PlumX Metrics: Correlational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citations.International journal of public health · 2020Observational
- Cross-sectional analysis of bibliometrics and altmetrics: comparing the impact of qualitative and quantitative articles in theBMJ open · 2020Article
- Analysis of highly tweeted dental journals and articles: a science mapping approach.British dental journal · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionIn emerging Figures, scholars are unifying social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, open nature of these tools reveals the scholarly action to be clear and unambiguous. Metrics which is set on these activities could enlighten broader, faster measures of impact, supplementing traditional citation metrics.
aimThe present review aims to analyse the correlation of altmetrics with the traditional citations in medical research. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe search strategy used a combination of controlled vocabulary and free text terms. The main database searched were PubMed, PubMed Central, Cochrane Review, Embase and Google Scholar from 2010 to 2016. Out of the total 78 titles appeared seven articles fulfilled the criteria and were selected for the review.
resultsThe positive correlation between altmetrics and traditional citations indicates that the two are not entirely different from each other and are familiar with each other. Altmetrics are usually accessible earlier and enable us to evaluate the social impact of scholarly research, almost at the actual time.
conclusionMuch work is needed to develop this research which will focus on the clarity of the impact signal. Thus newer dimensions, such as altmetrics and article-level metrics are an effort to explore the influence of research across the worldwide population.
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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.