Impact analysis of International Papers of AREEO Researchers Indexed in Scopus Database: An Altmetrics Study

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty member, Agricultural center for Information science & Technology, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Or-ganization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.

2 Faculty member, Khuzestan Agricultural and Natural Resources Re-search and Education Center, Education and Extension Organiza-tion (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to identify the extent of reflection of English-language  articles by Iranian researchers of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension    Organization on social media based on Altmetric indicators.
Methodology:This research is applied in terms of purpose, a scientometrics study in terms of method which was done with a descriptive-analytical approach. The research population included 3251 articles published by the organization's researchers in international journals indexed in the Scopus database from 2015-2018. The main tools used to collect the data were the Scientometric System and the Bookmarklet plugin of the    Altmetric site.  
Findings: The findings show that 528 articles (16.24%) out of the total articles have been reflected at least once in various social media. The average Altmetrix score for all articles was 3.15. The findings also show that out of a total of 17,688 events on social media, Mendeley's share with 10,241 (57.9%) and Twitter with 3,613 (20.43%) have the highest events than other media. In addition, there is no strong significant correlation between the number of citations and the Altmetric score, or between the citation rate and reflection in the Mendeley and Twitter media. Thematic analysis of the reflections also shows that the field of the Environment with a total Altmetrix score of 3596 and then the fields of Botany and Animal sciences with the scores of 641 and 450 have   received the most attention from social media.
Conclusion: Although the level of reflection of international articles of agricultural researchers of the organization is acceptable compared to similar studies, the first     authors of the best articles reflected in these media are none of the researchers of the organization and have no Iranian origin. Also, the reflection of articles on social media has had little effect on increasing the citation rate.

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