Online Visibility and Scientific Relevance of Strabismus Research: Bibliometric Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality and accuracy of online scientific data are crucial, given that the internet and social media serve nowadays as primary sources of medical knowledge.

Objective

This study aims to analyze the relationship between scientific relevance and online visibility of strabismus research to answer the following questions: (1) Are the most popular strabismus papers scientifically relevant? (2) Are the most high-impact strabismus studies shared enough online?

Methods

The Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) was used as a proxy for online visibility, whereas citations and the journal's impact factor (IF) served as a metric for scientific relevance. Using "strabismus" as a keyword, 100 papers with the highest AAS and 100 papers with the highest number of citations were

SUBMITTER: Stupnicki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature