Alternative metrics in scientometrics: a meta-analysis of research into three altmetrics
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
A higher number of Mendeley readers suggests that a publication is frequently accessed by fellow researchers, which could lead to collaboration and citation opportunities.
“A higher number of Mendeley readers suggests that a publication is frequently accessed by fellow researchers, which could lead to collaboration and citation opportunities (Bornmann, 2015; Haustein et al., 2014).”
From Can ChatGPT be used to predict citation counts, readership, and social media interaction? An exploration among 2222 scientific abstracts (2024) · cites this paper as Bornmann, 2015
Cites
Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Analysis of Research
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What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior
Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H. (2008) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/00220410810844150 · Cited by 1,607 · see citing works
Self-citationCheung, M. W.-L. (2014) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/a0032968 · Cited by 1,342 · see citing works
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
Thelwall, M., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064841 · Cited by 907 · see citing works
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Impact of covert duplicate publication on meta-analysis: a case study
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“Knowing the pooled correlation coefficient for a group of studies is typically the starting point of a further meta-analysis (Marsh et al. 2009).”
Background
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
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Critical Rationalism and the Search for Standard (Field-Normalized) Indicators in Bibliometrics
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“A higher number of Mendeley readers suggests that a publication is frequently accessed by fellow researchers, which could lead to collaboration and citation opportunities (Bornmann, 2015; Haustein et al., 2014).”
- Authors
- Bornmann, L.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Bornmann, Lutz
- ORCID
- Bornmann, Lutz
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2015-03-15
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1123-1144
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2142756309
- Cited by
- 202
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 4.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- altmetrics, research evaluation, citation counts, Twitter, microblogging, Mendeley, CiteULike, blogging, bibliometric analysis
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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