Social media and scientific communication: an altmetric analysis of information science journals

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Ronaldo Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/47918
• topic: Social media. Scientific communication. Altmetrics.; Mídias sociais. Comunicação científica. Altmetria.; Altmetria

This study elaborates on the relationship between social media and communication science, setting the emerging field of altmetris for the analysis of this relationship. The study presents the results of a research project that aimed to analyse alternative metrics to 125 articles of Brazilian Information Science journals. Through Altmetric.com, 45 of the 125 items returned altmetrics data. The journal Ciência da Informação obtained better results than the others, with 21 articles and 297 altmetrics data. In regards to social media, around 92,43% of the data collected was taken from Mendeley’s library, while 7,57% of the mentions were from Twitter, and no data was recovered from Facebook. We consider that the lack of standardization for magazines can be a factor in the reduced quantity of articles found, and the parameterization of Application Programming Interface of social media such as Facebook and Twitter can be the answer to overcome this low number for the recovered data. The altmetric data indicates the attention that the articles receive on socialweb shortly after their publication and may be a suggestion of future citations.