An altmetric study: Social attention based evaluation of top-100 publications about the COVID-19 pandemic from notification of the first case to the 6th month

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dc.authorscopusid6508099506
dc.authorscopusid36474476000
dc.authorscopusid57216340271
dc.authorscopusid56928021200
dc.authorscopusid57322773400
dc.contributor.authorDokur, Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorBaysoy, Nüket Güler
dc.contributor.authorUysal, Betül Borku
dc.contributor.authorKaradağ, Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorDemirbilek, Mahmut
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-19T15:41:33Z
dc.date.available2024-09-19T15:41:33Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentHatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractObjective: Altmetrics, or alternative-metrics, have recently emerged as a web-based metrics measuring the impact of an individual article in social media accounts with an emphasis on the public attention/engagement with the research output. Aim of this study is to perform mid-2020 altmetric analysis of top-100 articles about COVID-19 that provoked the most online attention. Methods: Altmetric Explorer search was performed in June 3th,2020. After ranked by altmetric attention score (AAS: an automatically calculated weighted count of all of the attention a research output has received in social media), articles that are not related by COVID-19 were excluded and the first-100 COVID-19-related articles were analyzed. Variables evaluated were (I) AAS, (II) dimensions-badge (interactive visualizations that showcase the citation data origins for individual publications), (III) month of publication, (IV) distribution of web-sources, (V) demographic-breakdown type distributions of citations, (VI) geographic-breakdown type distributions of citations, (VII) level-of-evidence (decided using SIGN-Criteria) (VIII) Q-categories of scientific journals, and (IX) h-index. Descriptive and correlational statistics were performed. Kruskal-Wallis test was used for AAS and dimensions-badge value comparisons while post-hoc analyses were performed by Dunn test. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated to detect linear relationship between numerical variables. Analyses were performed by SPSS23.0 and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Most (74%) of the disseminated articles were published in Q1-journals while evidence levels were mostly level-3/level-4. Content of the first 3 articles was about the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions, origin of COVID-19 and chloroquine usage, respectively. There was no significant difference between AAS in different months (p=0.673) but dimensions-badges in January were significantly higher (p<0.05). There was a weak positive correlation between AAS and dimensionsbadge (r=0.250; p=0.017). Conclusion: Dimensions-badge and AAS results revealed that academia discussed COVID-19 much more in the first-month of pandemic, but then interests continued parallelly in academia and other social media platforms, including public. Academicians have discussed experiences of large-patient series but public preferred what is potentially protective or risky for them. Although enormously fast accumulation and dissemination of new scientific publications were witnessed, it seems sens-clinique rather than strict evidence-based-advice transferred to journals. Because infodemic is another emerging problem, every scientist should be ethically more responsible about the publication they choose to disseminate. Interpretations/public-messages of scientists might also be critical, given the fact that only 15% of discussed Covid-19 articles was in level-1/level-2 evidence © 2021,Turk Hijyen ve Deneysel Biyoloji Dergisi.All Rights Reserveden_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5505/TURKHIJYEN.2021.66743
dc.identifier.endpage442en_US
dc.identifier.issn0377-9777
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85125657242en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4en_US
dc.identifier.startpage411en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid521862en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5505/TURKHIJYEN.2021.66743
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/521862
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/14328
dc.identifier.volume78en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRefik Saydam National Public Health Agency (RSNPHA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTurk Hijyen ve Deneysel Biyoloji Dergisien_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectAltmetricsen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectElectronic platformsen_US
dc.subjectInfodemicen_US
dc.subjectLevel-of-evidenceen_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectSocial attentionen_US
dc.subjectWeb-based metricsen_US
dc.titleAn altmetric study: Social attention based evaluation of top-100 publications about the COVID-19 pandemic from notification of the first case to the 6th monthen_US
dc.title.alternativeAltmetrik bir çalışma: COVID-19 pandemisinde ilk vakanın bildiriminden 6 ay sonrasına dek sosyal medya atıflarında liste başı olan 100 yayının değerlendirilmesien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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