Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research

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Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research. / Hassan, Saeed Ul; Iqbal, Sehrish; Aljohani, Naif R.; Alelyani, Salem; Zuccala, Alesia.

I: Scientometrics, Bind 123, Nr. 3, 01.06.2020, s. 1407-1419.

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Hassan, SU, Iqbal, S, Aljohani, NR, Alelyani, S & Zuccala, A 2020, 'Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research', Scientometrics, bind 123, nr. 3, s. 1407-1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03447-z

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Hassan, S. U., Iqbal, S., Aljohani, N. R., Alelyani, S., & Zuccala, A. (2020). Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research. Scientometrics, 123(3), 1407-1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03447-z

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Hassan SU, Iqbal S, Aljohani NR, Alelyani S, Zuccala A. Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research. Scientometrics. 2020 jun. 1;123(3):1407-1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03447-z

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Hassan, Saeed Ul ; Iqbal, Sehrish ; Aljohani, Naif R. ; Alelyani, Salem ; Zuccala, Alesia. / Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research. I: Scientometrics. 2020 ; Bind 123, Nr. 3. s. 1407-1419.

Bibtex

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abstract = "We propose a new metric called {\textquoteleft}alt-index{\textquoteright}, which is analagous to the h-index, but uses altmetrics data to measure both the volume and social media activity of scientific literature. The dataset includes over 1.1 million papers and their associated altmetrics score. A correlation analysis of the h-index and alt-index is conducted at three different levels: field level, source (journal) level, and author level. Our results show a strong positive correlation between the two indexes across all levels. We conclude that the alt-index can be adopted to measure the social activity of publications in situations where there is agreement amongst various social media channels.",
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