Measuring the Social Attention of the Leading Medicine Journals of India: An Altmetric Analysis

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to analyse the leading medicine journals of India through altmetric parameters. The primary objective of the study is to find the altmetric presence of the journals and analyse the altmetric events recorded in various altmetric data sources. The study also aims to find the correlation between Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) and citation count. The study considered Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2021 to select the top five medicine journals of India. The bibliographic and altmetric data were extracted from the Dimensions.ai database. Data analysis was done using R, Biblioshiny, and VOSviewer. The study reported that 43.46 % of the articles had an AAS, with a mean AAS of 7.48 for articles with AAS≥1, and a standard deviation of 24.58. The majority of altmetric events were recorded on Mendeley (53, 666), followed by Twitter (5, 885) and News outlets (523). The study also reported a significant, weak positive correlation between citation count and AAS (r (1287) = 0.237, p