Academic reception and public dissemination of neurological research between 2012 and 2021

Fundamental changes in the way scientific research is disseminated have inspired the concept of altmetrics, most prominently the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). The exact relation between the latter and traditional measures of science reception (e.g. citation count) is unknown. In this study, we determined citation counts and AAS as well as the ratio between the two (AAS-to-citation ratio) in 138,339 original research and review articles from 86 neurological journals between 2012 and 2021. The journal impact factor was closely correlated with both citation count (rs = 0.73) and AAS (rs = 0.64), whereas it showed a negative association with the AAS-to-citation ratio (rs = −0.26). Reviews accumulated more citations and a higher AAS than original research, while their AAS-to-citation ratio was significantly lower. Citation count was the only metric significantly associated with the number of publications by country (rs = 0.65). There were notable differences between major neurological sub...

科学研究传播方式的根本性变革催生了替代计量学（altmetrics）这一概念，其中最具代表性的便是替代计量关注度得分（Altmetric Attention Score，AAS）。目前学界尚未明确该得分与传统科学传播评价指标（如被引量）之间的确切关联。本研究针对2012至2021年间86种神经学期刊刊载的138339篇原创研究与综述论文，分别统计了其被引量、AAS以及二者的比值（AAS与被引量之比）。分析结果显示，期刊影响因子与被引量（rs = 0.73）、AAS（rs = 0.64）均呈强正相关，而与AAS与被引量之比呈弱负相关（rs = -0.26）。相较于原创研究，综述论文的被引量与AAS均更高，但其AAS与被引量之比显著更低。此外，被引量是唯一与国家发文量呈显著相关的指标（rs = 0.65）。主要神经学细分领域间存在显著差异……