The performance impact of the brazilian information science journals On facebook: an altmetric study

This article reflects on the Facebook's interactions as elements of online attention and altmetric data. The empirical analysis of the reflections considers the repercussion of Information Science journal articles, indexed in the Periodical Brazilian Information Science Production Repertory (RP...

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Autores: Araujo, Ronaldo Ferreira, Murakami, Tiago Rodrigo Marçal, Prado, Jorge Moisés Kroll do
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8650461
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8650461
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Altmetrics
Online attention
Facebook
Altmetria
Atenção online
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Sumario:This article reflects on the Facebook's interactions as elements of online attention and altmetric data. The empirical analysis of the reflections considers the repercussion of Information Science journal articles, indexed in the Periodical Brazilian Information Science Production Repertory (RPPBCI). The collection of the altmetric data was performed through Facebook’s Application Program Interface parameterized by the main and secondary URL of articles from 31 journals. The articles' repercussion indicates an online attention with 13.633 interactions, of which 8.840 are "likes", 2.992 are "shares" and 1.801 are "comments". The Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação Journal has the greatest visibility with 13.4% of the attention received and recent articles achieved high score. In conclusion, interactions with the content of scientific articles on Facebook are rich sources of altmetric data and deserve more attention from scholars in this field. They can be helpful as an aggregate metric for providing an additional view of the articles’ scientific performance when liked, shared or commented.