An analysis of the top 500 anesthesiology publications with the highest altmetric attention scores.

ABSTRACT: Altmetrics is a web-based measurement method that assesses the online dissemination and interactions of an article. We performed an altmetric analysis of 500 papers with the highest altmetric attention score (AAS) published in anesthesiology-related journals. Journals were identified from the Web of Science (WoS) Master Journal List by Clarivate using the category "Anesthesiology." The altmetric data were obtained from the Altmetric Explorer database. The first 500 publications with the highest AAS scores among these journals were identified and analyzed. Using Spearman correlation, no correlation was observed between the AAS and either WoS or Google Scholar citations (R = 0.188, P < .001 and R = 0.161, P < .001, respectively). There was a weak correlation between blog mentions and both Wo

SUBMITTER: Omur Arca D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11856929 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature