ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2025
Correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation scores across the high impact-factor journals each in Medicine, Surgery, and Anaesthesia.
Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Altmetric Activity and Scientific Integrity: A Retraction Analysis of PubMed-Indexed Social Media-Related Publications.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Dissemination patterns of Cochrane reviews on nutrition and physical activity using Altmetric data: a bibliographic study.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- The enigma of journal impact factors: determinants of impact factors for journals in General and Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Anaesthesiology.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCitation scores (CS) are traditionally used to measure the impact of scientific publications. Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS), in contrast, consider the digital dissemination of articles across social media platforms to track their audience reach. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to determine the correlation between AAS and CS in 12 high-impact-factor journals in the category of 'Clinical Medicine'.
methodsThe 12 journals with the highest 2023 journal impact factor (published in June 2024), four each in General and Internal Medicine, General Surgery, and Anaesthesia, were included. Articles published in final version between January 1 and December 31, 2021 were selected, and up-to-date AAS and CS for each article were obtained on July 2, 2024 from Dimensions (https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication). Spearman's rank order correlations (ϱ) were used to assess the strength of the association between AAS and CS.
resultsA total of 5193 outputs (2747 in Medicine, 1345 in Surgery, and 1101 in Anaesthesia) were analysed, with median (interquartile range) AAS and CS of 37 (10-157) and 16 (6-52), respectively. Medicine journals had the highest AAS and CS (124 [47-384] and 28 [8-113]), followed by Anaesthesia (12 [5-27] and 12 [5-24]) and Surgery (9 [2-24] and 11 [4-27]), respectively. There was a moderate positive correlation between AAS and CS overall (ϱ=0.589), with a moderate correlation for Medicine (ϱ=0.681) and Anaesthesia (ϱ=0.427) and a weak correlation for Surgery (ϱ=0.354) (all P<0.0001).
conclusionsAltmetric Attention Scores correlated with citation scores, suggesting that audience engagement via social media can influence the future impact of publications and their citation scores.
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