Altmetrics indicators for measuring the readers' intentions towards the highly cited articles in knowledge sharing
Journal Title: Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 24
Abstract
The limited applications of the citation analysis inspire academics and editors to think of other alternative non-citation measure that catch the academic and public readers' online intentions as well. Altmetrics is considered as alternative impact matric for measuring the intentions (find, download, cite, use, shared, recommend, or discuss) towards scholarly contents in peer reviewed journals, databases, open access sources, etc. The study intends to explore the readers' intentions (publicity) towards the highly cited articles in knowledge sharing within the major subject areas interested in the topic and their characteristics. It also aims at inspecting the interdisciplinarity among the highest cited articles within the major subject areas. The results concluded that there were high correlations between citations and intentions in social sciences, business, and medicine. The results also resolved that social media paths such as Mendeley, Twitter, Blogs and many others unquestionably will facilitate academic as well as public communication worldwide.
Authors and Affiliations
Prof. Naeema H. Jabur, Hamaed Alaghbari, Fahad Alsakeiti, Salah Alyaarubi
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