Use of Persistent Identifiers and Research Blogging by Portuguese Language Scientific Blogs and their Altmetric Coverage

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, José Antônio Dias da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gouveia, Fabio Castro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2020.e71277
• topic: Altmetria; Blogosfera; Cientometria; Divulgação científica; Métricas alternativas; Altmetrics; Alternative metrics; Blogosphere; Science communication; Scientometrics

Objective: investigates the use of persistent identifiers and Research Blogging by the Portuguese-language scientific blogosphere and their coverage by Altmetric through a survey of article citations in their posts.Methods: Starting from the list of blogs registered in the Scientific Blog Ring (Anel de Blogues Científicos - ABC) portal, Google searches were made in order to identify blogs in Portuguese that cite in their posts articles with persistent identifiers such as DOI, PMID or ArXiv, or that integrate the Research Blogging initiative that links posts with research citations in academic journals.Results: The systematized data made it possible to consult Altmetric's website and verify its coverage. As a result, we found that of the 460 blogs listed on ABC, only 109 blogs cited with persistent identifiers, 35 participated in the Research Blogging initiative and 42 were mapped by Altmetric.Conclusions: Discussions about the representativeness of scientific blogs in Portuguese in scholarly communication were conducted based on the results obtained. The lack of standardization of blog citations was pointed as one of the factors responsible for the low coverage of Portuguese-language blogs by the Altmetric indicator. A possible action was also indicated to reduce this under-representation of the blogosphere in Portuguese.