Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication

The aim of this paper is to review the current and most relevant literature on the use of altmetric providers since 2012. This review is supported by a meta-analysis of the coverage and metric counts obtained by more than 100 publications that have used these bibliographic platforms for altmetric st...

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Autor: Ortega Priego, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Altmetrics
Coverage
Data providers
Social media
Lagotto
ImpactStory
Mendeley
PlumX
Crossref Event Data
Wikipedia
Review.
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spelling Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publicationOrtega Priego, José LuisAltmetricsCoverageData providersSocial mediaLagottoAltmetricsImpactStoryMendeleyPlumXCrossref Event DataWikipediaReview.The aim of this paper is to review the current and most relevant literature on the use of altmetric providers since 2012. This review is supported by a meta-analysis of the coverage and metric counts obtained by more than 100 publications that have used these bibliographic platforms for altmetric studies. The article is the most comprehensive analysis of altmetric data providers (Lagotto, Altmetric.com, ImpactStory, Mendeley, PlumX, Crossref Event Data) and explores the coverage of publications, social media and events from a longitudinal view. Disciplinary differences were also analysed. The results show that most of the studies are based on Altmetric.com data. This provider is the service that captures most mentions from social media sites, blogs and news outlets. PlumX has better coverage, counting more Mendeley readers, but capturing fewer events. CED has a special coverage of mentions from Wikipedia, while Lagotto and ImpactStory are becoming disused products because of their limited reach.Swets & ZeitlingerConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2020202020202020info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/217725reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://dx.doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.ene.07Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2177252026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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title Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
spellingShingle Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
Ortega Priego, José Luis
Altmetrics
Coverage
Data providers
Social media
Lagotto
Altmetrics
ImpactStory
Mendeley
PlumX
Crossref Event Data
Wikipedia
Review.
title_short Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
title_full Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
title_fullStr Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
title_full_unstemmed Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
title_sort Altmetrics data providers: A meta-analysis review of the coverage of metrics and publication
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ortega Priego, José Luis
author Ortega Priego, José Luis
author_facet Ortega Priego, José Luis
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Altmetrics
Coverage
Data providers
Social media
Lagotto
Altmetrics
ImpactStory
Mendeley
PlumX
Crossref Event Data
Wikipedia
Review.
topic Altmetrics
Coverage
Data providers
Social media
Lagotto
Altmetrics
ImpactStory
Mendeley
PlumX
Crossref Event Data
Wikipedia
Review.
description The aim of this paper is to review the current and most relevant literature on the use of altmetric providers since 2012. This review is supported by a meta-analysis of the coverage and metric counts obtained by more than 100 publications that have used these bibliographic platforms for altmetric studies. The article is the most comprehensive analysis of altmetric data providers (Lagotto, Altmetric.com, ImpactStory, Mendeley, PlumX, Crossref Event Data) and explores the coverage of publications, social media and events from a longitudinal view. Disciplinary differences were also analysed. The results show that most of the studies are based on Altmetric.com data. This provider is the service that captures most mentions from social media sites, blogs and news outlets. PlumX has better coverage, counting more Mendeley readers, but capturing fewer events. CED has a special coverage of mentions from Wikipedia, while Lagotto and ImpactStory are becoming disused products because of their limited reach.
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