Citation and altmetric indicators in countries and languages level: analysis of brazilian publications with international collaboration

• Autor(a) principal: Pontes, Danielle Pompeu Noronha
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Maricato, João de Melo, Silva, Márcia Regina da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/47257
• topic: Altmetry; Correlation; Bibliometrics; Citation; Altmetria; Correlação; Bibliometria; Citação; Colaboração; Cotizar; Altmetría; Correlación; Bibliometria

Objective: Investigates citation and altmetric indicators in relation to countries and languages. Methodology: This is a descriptive study that uses altmetric and citation indicators to analyze correlations between them. Data from 1,473 publications extracted from the Scopus database (2013-2022) that contained authors affiliated with Brazil in co-authorship with authors from other countries were analyzed. Results: It was found that the highest correlations are between citation indicators (Crossref/Scopus). The media with the highest correlation with citation indicators was Mendeley. In general, there is a similar correlation between the indicators in terms of countries, one of the exceptions being the indicators of Brazilian documents published in collaboration with Colombia. With regard to language, the highest correlations are from the indicators of works in English, one of the exceptions being bilingual publications written in Portuguese and English, which presented greater correlations between Scopus/Twitter and publications in Spanish that presented a greater correlation between Mendeley /Twitter. Conclusions: In general, there is a pattern in the correlations between citations and altmetric indicators according to the countries that published in international collaboration with Brazil. The high correlation between the Scopus and Crossref databases stands out, which indicates that the sources are largely compatible and that they have similar evaluative potential.