New data, new possibilitiesexploring the insides of Altmetric.com

  1. Robinson García, Nicolás
  2. Torres-Salinas, Daniel
  3. Zahedi, Zohreh
  4. Costas, Rodrigo
Journal:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Year of publication: 2014

Volume: 23

Issue: 4

Pages: 359-366

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2014.JUL.03 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This paper analyzes Altmetric.com, one of the most important altmetric data providers currently used. We have analyzed a set of publications with doi number indexed in the Web of Science during the period 2011-2013 and collected their data with the Altmetric API. 19% of the original set of papers was retrieved from Altmetric.com including some altmetric data. We identified 16 different social media sources from which Altmetric.com retrieves data. However five of them cover 95.5% of the total set. Twitter (87.1%) and Mendeley (64.8%) have the highest coverage. We conclude that Altmetric.com is a transparent, rich and accurate tool for altmetric data. Nevertheless, there are still potential limitations on its exhaustiveness as well as on the selection of social media sources that need further research.

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