Fatemeh Makkizadeh; Mohammad Amin Erfanmanesh; Farzaneh Sarrami
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Introduction: Altmetrics (Alternative Indicators) are indicators which can be exploited alongside traditional scientometric concepts based on the citation analysis to examine the impact of scientific products on the Web 2.0 environment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence ...
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Introduction: Altmetrics (Alternative Indicators) are indicators which can be exploited alongside traditional scientometric concepts based on the citation analysis to examine the impact of scientific products on the Web 2.0 environment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of international articles in the field of medical informatics and health information management (HIM) in social media and to determine the level of use of researchers from these media, in addition to identifying top articles based on Altmetrics scores.Methods: The present study was conducted with a scientometric approach using Altmetric indicators. The research population consisted of 64 journals in the field of HIM and medical informatics indexed at the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Scopus databases. All the necessary information about the journals and articles, such as the name of the journal, the name of the article, the altimetric score, etc. was obtained by referring to the Altmetric.com website. Spearman correlation test was used to analyze the data.Results: Mendeley, Twitter, and Facebook were among the social media that received the most mentions. The findings indicated that there was a significant relationship between altmetrics coverage (presence in social web environment) and three quality performance indices (SJR, snipe, and site score). The correlation coefficients obtained for these three indices were 0.401, 0.248, and 0.285, respectively.Conclusion: Social media can have a positive effect on the citation rate of scientific articles. Therefore, researchers in the field of medical informatics and HIM can increase the number of citations by sharing their works on social media. Due to the lack of strong correlation in this study, altmetrics can be used to complement scientometrics indices, but not as an alternative to evaluating scientific research.
Ali Mansouri; Marjan Forouzandeh-Shahraki; Mohammad Amin Erfanmanesh
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Introduction: One of the indicators of research outputs of universities is assessment of the capability to of transferring knowledge to technology via assessment of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. Current research aimed to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of ...
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Introduction: One of the indicators of research outputs of universities is assessment of the capability to of transferring knowledge to technology via assessment of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. Current research aimed to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of scholarly outputs by patents in Scopus for the type 1 medical science universities of Iran during 2000-2015 period.Methods: Research population comprised of all scholarly output published by eight type 1 Iranian medical science universities (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Ahwaz, and Kerman) in Scopus database during 2000-2015 period. Data were collected from Elsevier’s SciVal. Moreover, data analysis was conducted using descriptive correlation statistics.Results: Of 76111 studied publications, 998 scientific outputs were cited 3145 times from patents. Citedness rate of medical science universities’ scholarly output were found to be higher than the average rate of Iran (0.39%), but lower than the international average rate (1.1%). The highest and lowest shares of cited publications by patents were seen in the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (1.53%) and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (0.58%), respectively. Results of running a series of multiple linear regression tests showed that four indicators, namely Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), total number of publication’s authors, and total number of publication’s contributing institutions had statistically significant impacts on possibility of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents.Conclusion: In addition to the topic and practical nature of the scholarly output, results of the study showed that research collaboration, as well as publishing in high quality journals, has an impact on getting cited by patents.
Tahereh Bashiri; Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh; Amirreza Asnafi
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Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the presence and attentions received by Iranian highly-cited articles in the field of medical science, in various social media platforms.Methods: This descriptive and analytical survey was conducted using scientometrics and altmetrics indicators. The ...
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Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the presence and attentions received by Iranian highly-cited articles in the field of medical science, in various social media platforms.Methods: This descriptive and analytical survey was conducted using scientometrics and altmetrics indicators. The study population comprised of 1288 highly-cited papers from Iran in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database during 2007-2016. In addition to Essential Science Indicators, Web of Science and Altmetric Explorer database were utilized for data gathering, too.Results: 0.27% of the total publications from Iran in the field of medical sciences were among highly-cited papers (top 1% with the highest number of citations). Moreover, Iranian researchers contributed in 0.28% of world highly-cited papers in the field of medical sciences. 85.5% of Iranian highly-cited papers were mentioned at least once in social media platforms. Mendeley and Twitter were the most promising altmetrics sources for Iranian highly-cited papers in the field of medical sciences. Investigating the characteristics of highly-mentioned articles showed that they had similar publishing patterns. All five highly-alted papers in social media, were produced through international research collaboration, had more than 10 authors, and were published in the Lancet journal.Conclusion: Comparing to other subject categories, the altmetrics coverage of highly-cited papers in the field of medical sciences was in an acceptable level. Considering the positive and statistical significant association between the number of citations received by papers and their altmetrics scores, we can conclude that highly-cited papers from Iran in the field of medical sciences attract high attentions in social media as well.
