A study on article selection behavior - Survey

This survey helped to evaluate the behavior of economists in academia during the article selection process using different scholarly evaluation metrics. Within this survey, we presented both bibliometric and altmetric indicators attached to four journal articles of which the participants were encouraged to make a decision which article they want to read first. This study, however, was focused more on finding out the usefulness of altmetric information when selecting an article for reading rather than the bibliometric indicators in general.

The questionnaire is created on the LimeSurvey. It was disseminated to roughly 15,000 economists worldwide, contacted via email addresses found within the mailing list. The distribution of the survey started on November 11, 2019, and was online for three and a half weeks until November 29, 2019.