... with a slight reduction in time to retraction. Bootstrap validation confirmed the stability of this finding. Originality/value Public scrutiny, institutional responsibility and publication visibility jointly shape the time to retraction. This study advances altmetrics discourse by positioning social media...

...Majid Nabavi Purpose This paper investigates the news coverage of research documents with the top Altmetric attention score (AAS) using a descriptive and explorative approach. Design/methodology/approach A dataset comprising 1,000 articles with high AAS was retrieved from Altmetric.com...

...Sumit Kumar Banshal; Vivek Kumar Singh; Pranab Kumar Muhuri Purpose The main purpose of this study is to explore and validate the question “whether altmetric mentions can predict citations to scholarly articles”. The paper attempts to explore the nature and degree of correlation between altmetrics...

... Licensed re-use rights only Post-publication peer review Review polarity Citation count Citation analysis Altmetrics Publons Qianjin Zong can be contacted at: zongqj@m.scnu.edu.cn 21 01 2019 27 07 2019 15 10 2019 20 12 2019 Simultaneously, PPPR...

... with a review of existing scholarship examining citation counts, altmetrics, and their determinants, we compared highly cited and highly tweeted articles to identify distinct differences between citation counts and Twitter mentions. We first explored how selected attributes including document characteristics...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bibliometrics Open access Altmetrics Webometrics Open bibliometrics Figure 1 Number of papers indexed by the Web of Science with bibliometric*/altmetric*/webometric* in the Topic Field...

...Jin-Cheon Na; Yingxin Estella Ye Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive understanding of scholarly discussions of academic publications on the social web and to further discuss the validity of altmetrics as a research impact assessment tool for academic articles. Design...

...Ann E. Williams Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and critique of altmetrics, an understudied yet increasingly important arena of study for scholars, academics, and professional researchers. Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized into six parts: the first...

...Tint Hla Hla Htoo; Jin-Cheon Na Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of altmetrics in different disciplines of social science: first, by investigating the current richness and future potential of altmetrics in the selected social science disciplines...

.../methodology/approach – In this work the attempt is made to indicate the relevance of the Leiden manifesto for altmetrics. Findings – As shown by the discussion of the ten principles against the background of the knowledge about and the research into altmetrics, the principles also have a great...

... and contracted. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Time Research metrics Altmetrics Scientometrics Leiden Manifesto The publication of The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics in April (Hicks et al., 2015) received a lot of attention on social media, with over 1,200...

.... The research findings suggest that new open approaches are needed to address the evolving tension and conflicts between communication and certification. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Attitudes Altmetrics Scholarship Open Access Peer review Academic publishing Being published...

..., social media, Open Access (OA), altmetrics and big data are affecting how universities and research centres operate. All of these changes have leanings towards openness and may be seen as a threat by those academics who prefer to carry out their work in isolation and with a degree of anonymity. Open...

... the same subject matter classification. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Webometrics Altmetrics Academic social sites Spanish National Research Council Social networking sites have become increasingly important in the scholarly community. Many researchers have built...

... their areas of excellence, scientometricians of all types (bibliometric/webometric/altmetric) will be poring over the results to determine how their own discipline could have contributed to the process at a fraction of the cost. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Scientometrics Research...

... --> Webometrics Impact factors Bibliometrics Altmetrics There has been a marked increase in interest in metrics in recent years, driven by a desire to gain insights, increase efficiencies and promote change in the scholarly system. At the same time that traditional bibliometric indicators based...