Altmetric Attention Score and Its Relationships to the Characteristics of the Publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

ABSTRACT

This article contributes to the discussion on the relationship between views, citations, number of references, number of authors, number of countries and the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). The aim is to identify the metric most likely to complement traditional citations in scholarly publishing in chemistry. We used the publications in a top multi-disciplinary chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, for a three-year period for this study. We identified whether materials that are highly viewed correlates with higher number of citations and higher Altmetric Attention Scores; high AAS correlates with higher number of views and higher number of citations; higher number of citations correlates with higher number of views and higher AAS; (multi-authored works correlate with higher AAS, higher number of views and/or higher number of citations; and authors from more than one country correlate with higher number of views, higher citations and higher AAS.

KEYWORDS:

• Altmetric Attention Score
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• metrics

Disclosure statement

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