ReviewPharmacoepidemiology and drug safety2020
Measuring the impact of pharmacoepidemiologic research using altmetrics: A case study of a CNODES drug-safety article.
Review in Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Assessing Research Impact With Bibliometrics and Altmetrics: The Case of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2026Article
- Assessing the visibility and public engagement of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation research: An altmetric analysis.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Altmetrics in the evaluation of scholarly impact: a systematic and critical literature review.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2025Review
- The correlation between altmetric score and traditional measures of article impact for studies pertaining to spine trauma.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Review
- An Altmetrics Analysis of the Articles Published in the Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1987-2020).Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- Using Natural Language Processing to Examine the Uptake, Content, and Readability of Media Coverage of a Pan-Canadian Drug Safety Research Project: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2020Article
- Building a framework for the evaluation of knowledge translation for the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2020Article
- Measuring the impact of pharmacoepidemiologic research using altmetrics: A case study of a CNODES drug-safety article.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeTo provide an overview of altmetrics, including their potential benefits and limitations, how they may be obtained, and their role in assessing pharmacoepidemiologic research impact.
methodsOur review was informed by compiling relevant literature identified through searching multiple health research databases (PubMed, Embase, and CIHNAHL) and grey literature sources (websites, blogs, and reports). We demonstrate how pharmacoepidemiologists, in particular, may use altmetrics to understand scholarly impact and knowledge translation by providing a case study of a drug-safety study conducted by the Canadian Network of Observational Drug Effect Studies.
resultsA common approach to measuring research impact is the use of citation-based metrics, such as an article's citation count or a journal's impact factor. "Alternative" metrics, or altmetrics, are increasingly supported as a complementary measure of research uptake in the age of social media. Altmetrics are nontraditional indicators that capture a diverse set of traceable, online research-related artifacts including peer-reviewed publications and other research outputs (software, datasets, blogs, videos, posters, policy documents, presentations, social media posts, wiki entries, etc).
conclusionCompared with traditional citation-based metrics, altmetrics take a more holistic view of research impact, attempting to capture the activity and engagement of both scholarly and nonscholarly communities. Despite the limited theoretical underpinnings, possible commercial influence, potential for gaming and manipulation, and numerous data quality-related issues, altmetrics are promising as a supplement to more traditional citation-based metrics because they can ingest and process a larger set of data points related to the flow and reach of scholarly communication from an expanded pool of stakeholders. Unlike citation-based metrics, altmetrics are not inherently rooted in the research publication process, which includes peer review; it is unclear to what extent they should be used for research evaluation.
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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.