Altmetrics Outcomes#

Altmetric.com provides significant insight into the attention scholarly works get on social media and other public platforms. While many works get no attention, some get significant attention on platforms like Twitter or on popular blogs or on news outlets. Here is a sampling of some of the most impactful Altmetric scores sourced from EarthCube-funded projects – note that scores above 500 are among the top 5% of all Altmetric scores, and while scores vary in their power as predictors of citation counts [CDG19, HWW18a, KKI+21, SR17, WGC20, YXQG21], they are still valuable.

Highlights#

Altmetric Highlights

  • most of top 10 highest scoring altmetric papers were published between 2017-2020.

  • the top paper was a database tool

Tables#

Top 10 Altmetric scores#

Altmetric Score

Publication Title

Project Title

Realtime Score**

980.77

A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era (doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.88)

Earthcube Ia: Collaborative Proposal: Linkedearth: Crowdsourcing Data Curation & Standards Development In Paleoclimatology (NSF #1541029)

918.63

BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation (doi: 10.1002/2017gl074954)

Earthcube Rcn: Collaborative Research: Engaging The Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean (Griso) Science Network (NSF #1541390)

580.65

Future Global Convective Environments in CMIP6 Models (doi: 10.1029/2021ef002277)

Collaborative Proposal: Earthcube Integration: Pangeo: An Open Source Big Data Climate Science Platform (NSF #1740648)

274.68

Measurement of magnetic field and relativistic electrons along a solar flare current sheet (doi: 10.1038/s41550-020-1147-7)

Earthcube Rcn: Towards Integration Of Heliophysics Data, Modeling, And Analysis Tools (NSF #1743321)

170.44

Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG) (doi: 10.1038/nbt.4306)

Collaborative Proposal: Earthcube Building Blocks: Planet Microbe: Enabling The Discovery And Integration Of Oceanographic Omics, Environmental And Physiochemical Data Layers (NSF #1639588)

166.65

A Machine Reading System for Assembling Synthetic Paleontological Databases (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113523)

Earthcube Building Blocks: A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure For Geoscience (NSF #1343760)

154.72

Atmospheric oxygenation driven by unsteady growth of the continental sedimentary reservoir (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.012)

Earthcube Building Blocks Collaborative Proposal: Digital Crust ? An Exploratory Environment For Earth Science Research And Learning (NSF #1440312)

145.23

Similarity of fast and slow earthquakes illuminated by machine learning (doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0272-8)

Earthcube Data Infrastructure: Collaborative Proposal: A Unified Experimental-Natural Digital Data System For Analysis Of Rock Microstructures (NSF #1639710)

142.36

Liberating field science samples and data (doi: 10.1126/science.aad7048)

Earthcube Rcn: Isamples: The Internet Of Samples In The Earth Sciences (NSF #1440351)

107.30

Glacier geometry and flow speed determine how Arctic marine-terminating glaciers respond to lubricated beds (doi: 10.5194/tc-16-1431-2022)

Collaborative Research: Earthcube Data Capabilities–Jupyter Meets The Earth: Enabling Discovery In Geoscience Through Interactive Computing At Scale (NSF #1928406)

** Realtime score may vary from score in the first column.

Charts and Graphs#

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Interpretation#

Altmetric scores indicate attention that articles get across social media, blogs, news outlets, and other web sites. Previous research has shown that papers with higher altmetric attention are likely to receive more citations subsequently [AAK+21, HWW18b, KKR+20, SPB12].

Many of the same papers that are included in the top 10 most cited papers list are also in the top Altmetric list, but the ranking order does vary.

Surprisingly, the paper receiving the most citations, “Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges”, does not show up on this list of Altmetric scores, but it was published in 2016 at a time when Altmetric may not have been as widely used.

The #2-4 papers on the top 10 most cited papers list, however, are toward the top of this list of Altmetric score, being ranked #2, 5, and 1 respectively.

Several articles ranked in the top 10 Altmetric scores did not appear in the top 10 of the top 10 most cited papers list. Many of these papers were published after 2018, suggesting that Altmetric scores might provide an indicator of impact and reception in the years immediately following a paper’s publication, before citation counts have had time to accrue.

Analysis Notebooks#

References#

AAK+21

Akhil Pandey Akella, Hamed Alhoori, Pavan Ravikanth Kondamudi, Cole Freeman, and Haiming Zhou. Early indicators of scientific impact: Predicting citations with altmetrics. Journal of Informetrics, 15(2):101128, May 2021. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1751157720306453 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1016/j.joi.2020.101128.

CDG19

Jeremy Chang, Nidhi Desai, and Ankush Gosain. Correlation Between Altmetric Score and Citations in Pediatric Surgery Core Journals. Journal of Surgical Research, 243:52–58, November 2019. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022480419303014 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1016/j.jss.2019.05.010.

HWW18a

Wenya Huang, Peiling Wang, and Qiang Wu. A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals. PLOS ONE, 13(4):e0194962, April 2018. URL: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194962 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194962.

HWW18b

Wenya Huang, Peiling Wang, and Qiang Wu. A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals. PLOS ONE, 13(4):e0194962, April 2018. URL: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194962 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194962.

KKR+20

Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan, Kathleen Searles, and Yotam Shmargad. Using social media to promote academic research: Identifying the benefits of twitter for sharing academic work. PLOS ONE, 15(4):e0229446, April 2020. URL: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229446 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229446.

KKI+21

Jafar Kolahi, Saber Khazaei, Pedram Iranmanesh, Jeehyoung Kim, Heejung Bang, and Abbasali Khademi. Meta-Analysis of Correlations between Altmetric Attention Score and Citations in Health Sciences. BioMed Research International, 2021:1–11, April 2021. URL: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2021/6680764/ (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1155/2021/6680764.

SPB12

Xin Shuai, Alberto Pepe, and Johan Bollen. How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations. PLoS ONE, 7(11):e47523, November 2012. URL: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047523 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047523.

SR17

C. Syamili and R.V. Rekha. Do altmetric correlate with citation? : A study based on PLOS ONE journal. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 11(1):103–117, January 2017. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09737766.2016.1260815 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1080/09737766.2016.1260815.

WGC20

Zhiqi Wang, Wolfgang Glänzel, and Yue Chen. The impact of preprints in Library and Information Science: an analysis of citations, usage and social attention indicators. Scientometrics, 125(2):1403–1423, November 2020. URL: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-020-03612-4 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03612-4.

YXQG21

Siluo Yang, Xin Xing, Fan Qi, and Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio. Comparison of academic book impact from a disciplinary perspective: an analysis of citations and altmetric indicators. Scientometrics, 126(2):1101–1123, February 2021. URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-020-03808-8 (visited on 2022-09-22), doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03808-8.