Assessment of the Dissemination of COVID-19-Related Articles Across Social Media: Altmetrics Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of social media assists in the distribution of information about COVID-19 to the general public and health professionals. Alternative-level metrics (ie, Altmetrics) is an alternative method to traditional bibliometrics that assess the extent of dissemination of a scientific article on social media platforms.

Objective

Our study objective was to characterize and compare traditional bibliometrics (citation count) with newer metrics (Altmetric Attention Score [AAS]) of the top 100 Altmetric-scored articles on COVID-19.

Methods

The top 100 articles with the highest AAS were identified using the Altmetric explorer in May 2020. AAS, journal name, and mentions from various social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, Mendeley, and Dimensio

SUBMITTER: Tornberg H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10365589 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature