Characterization of the Iberian publications on open science and analysis of their presence in social media

Abstract

In this paper, the publications on Open Science in SCOPUS, from Spain and Portugal, are analyzed and the impact of that production on social media is studied through bibliometric and altmetric indicators. Between 2000 and 2016, 1273 documents on this subject were detected for both countries, especially concentrated in the last five years. Open Data is one of the more frequent topics, and Computer Science and Social Science are the subjects with a higher production. One third of the publications with DOI have had an impact on social networks, with Twitter being the medium with the highest number of mentions. Although one third of the documents were published in open access, no link was found between this indicator and the presence in social media.