Validity of altmetrics data for measuring societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime

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Highlights:

• Can altmetric data be validly used for the measurement of societal impact?

• The study is based on data from F1000, Altmetric, and an in-house database based on Web of Science.

• In the F1000 peer review system, experts assess scientific papers and attach particular tags.

• With better experts’ recommendation scores, higher total altmetric and citation counts are to be expected.

• In contrast to citation counts, papers with the tag “good for teaching” achieve higher altmetric counts than papers without this tag.

摘要

•Can altmetric data be validly used for the measurement of societal impact?•The study is based on data from F1000, Altmetric, and an in-house database based on Web of Science.•In the F1000 peer review system, experts assess scientific papers and attach particular tags.•With better experts’ recommendation scores, higher total altmetric and citation counts are to be expected.•In contrast to citation counts, papers with the tag “good for teaching” achieve higher altmetric counts than papers without this tag.

论文关键词:Altmetrics,Bibliometrics,F1000,Twitter,Societal impact

论文评审过程:Received 30 June 2014, Revised 24 August 2014, Accepted 26 September 2014, Available online 18 October 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.007