Does openness of articles get higher attention in altmetric? An investigation of medical discipline
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication
ISSN: 2514-9342
Article publication date: 1 December 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aimed to explore the presence of altmetric data across the sub-categories of the medical science discipline and also explore whether the openness of articles results in (dis)advantage for altmetrics mentions.
Design/methodology/approach
The research implies data carpentry methods for gathering bibliographic data related to narrow fields of medical science discipline from the Scopus database with at least one Indian author affiliation during 2012–2021. The corresponding data were also collected from three different sources: Altmetric.com, Mendeley.com and Unpaywall.org, using OpenRefine and REST/API calls. Further, the authors observed open access altmetric advantages (OAAA) and categorical OAAA (COAAA) across seven altmetric platforms for all articles as well as discipline-wise.
Findings
The result shows that the overall coverage of altmetric events is still low, but it shows an increasing trend from the past. Mendeley has the largest coverage; almost 97.12% of publications are covered. The health policy discipline has extensive coverage across altmetric platforms (nearly 57.40% of publications in altmetrics and 99.23% in Mendeley), whereas the drug guides has the lowest (almost 0.92% in Altmetrics and 77.05% in Mendeley). Moreover, the OA articles have been highly covered in altmetrics than those of non-OA articles, and bronze OA articles covered mostly compared to others. News registered with the significant OA altmetric advantages across disciplines. Categorically, bronze and hybrid OA have the largest altmetric advantages.
Originality/value
This research is a unique attempt to apply OAAA and COAAA to explore OA altmetric advantages of narrow subject categories of medical science disciplines.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Digital Science team for providing API access to the Altmetric.com database under the research data access program and also thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments towards improving the current shape of the manuscript.
Citation
Mukherjee, S., Nath, A., Mazumder, J. and Jana, S. (2023), "Does openness of articles get higher attention in altmetric? An investigation of medical discipline", Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-05-2023-0180
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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