Cross-sectional analysis of bibliometrics and altmetrics: comparing the impact of qualitative and quantitative articles in the British Medical Journal.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In comparison to quantitative research, the impact of qualitative articles in the medical literature has been questioned by the BMJ; to explore this, we compared the impact of quantitative and qualitative articles published in BMJ.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

Articles published in the BMJ between 2007 and 2017.

Main outcome measures

Bibliometric and altmetric measures of research impact were collected using Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, Plum Analytics and ProQuest Altmetric. Bibliometric measures consisted of citation numbers, field weighted citation impact and citation percentile. Altmetric measures consisted of article usage, captures, mentions, readers, altmetric attention score and score percentile. Scores were compared using

SUBMITTER: Retrouvey H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7580064 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature