Altmétricas a nivel institucionalvisibilidad en la Web de la producción científica de las universidades españolas a partir de Altmetric.com

  1. Daniel Torres-Salinas 1
  2. Pedro-Ángel Castillo-Valdivieso 1
  3. Álvaro Pérez-Luque 1
  4. Esteban Romero-Frías 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Journal:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Year of publication: 2018

Issue Title: Indicadores II / Libro electrónico

Volume: 27

Issue: 3

Pages: 483-492

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2018.MAY.03 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This study focuses on the publications of Spanish universities indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during 2014-2016 (125,824 articles) and calculates 17 indicators with Altmetric.com. Three objectives have been established: 1) to offer a general perspective of the altmetrics in Spanish universities, 2) to determine the coverage of Altmetric.com in the Spanish case and 3) to establish which are the most relevant altmetrics. The results show that 42% of the articles in the WoS are indexed in Altmetric.com. The indicators generated by Twitter, the digital press, Facebook and Wikipedia explain 82% of the variance. As conclusions, it is pointed out that: a) publishing in high impact journals and in areas such as Medicine and Biology helps universities to obtain better altmetrics; and b) a small number of indicators is enough to determine the altmetric impact.

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Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias a la financiación del proyecto “Knowmetrics: evaluación del conocimiento en la sociedad digital” dentro de las ayudas de la Fundación BBVA a equipos de investigación científica 2016.

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