Open AccessImpact of Altmetrics in evaluation of scientific journals, research outputs and scientists' careers: Views of editors of high impact anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine journals
Author(s) -
Argyro Fassoulaki,
Chryssoula Staikou,
Georgia Micha
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/ija.ija_694_21
Subject(s) - altmetrics , medicine , ranking (information retrieval) , mainstream , bibliometrics , social media , curriculum , alternative medicine , citation , medical education , library science , family medicine , psychology , information retrieval , pedagogy , pathology , computer science , political science , law , philosophy , theology
Altmetrics represent the attention of an article drawn from social and mainstream media. The aim of this survey was to investigate the views of editors of high-impact journals on the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS), the number derived from an automated algorithm including a weighted count of mainstream news and social media sources.