[Downloaded free from http://www.ijpvmjournal.net on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, IP: 94.199.136.196] Archive of SIDOriginal Article Altmetric Analysis of Contemporary Iranian Medical Journals Abstract Jafar Kolahi, Background: Altmetrics is a newly emerging scholarly tool measuring online attention surrounding Saber Khazaei1, scientific research outputs. With respect to increasing demand of disseminating research findings on Elham Bidram2, the World Wide Web, this study aims to analyze the altmetric statues of Iranian medical journals. 3 Methods: On February 27, 2019, the list of Iranian medical journals extracted from http://journals. Roya Kelishadi research.ac.ir/ and consequently altmetric data token out from Altmetric database (Altmetric LLP, Independent Research Scientist, London, UK). The science mapping done via keyword co-occurrence, co-citation and co-authorship, Founder and Associate Editor of Dental Hypotheses, network analysis using the VOSviewer. The Pearson coefficient was then employed for the correlation Isfahan, Iran, 1Department analysis using R. Results: Among a total of 104 journals, 7518 articles were mentioned in Altmetric of Endodontics and Dental data resources (Mean: 72.28, Confidence Level (95.0%): 16.8), total mentions were 27577 (Mean: Research Center, School of 265.16, Confidence Level (95.0%): 79.9). Considering the total mentions of articles, International Dentistry, Isfahan University Journal of Preventive Medicine achieved the first rank, followed by Journal of Research in Medical of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Sciences and Iranian Journal of Public Health. Notably, Twitter was the most popular altmetric Iran, 2Faculty of Advanced resource followed by Facebook and news outlets. Tweets were generally from the United States and Sciences and Technologies, United Kingdom. Among top 5% popular Iranian medical articles multiple sclerosis, cancer, and University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, 3Department anxiety was hot topics. Iranian biomedical journal editors and research scientists needs Conclusions: of Pediatrics, Child Growth to be more dynamic in World Wide Web using social media, post-publication peer review tools, Stack and Development Research Exchange (Q and A) sites, research highlight tools, Wikipedia, and etc. In spite, more attention to the Center, Research Institute for concept of evidence-based policymaking, by Iranian government along with the health policymakers Primordial Prevention of Non‑ seems necessary. Communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Keywords: Altmetrics, Facebook, Iran, medical journal, social media, Twitter Isfahan, Iran Introduction is strongly associated with impact factor and number of citations.[6] The number of Impact factor or h-index are the famous Twitter mentions potentially forecast the traditional citation-based metrics for the highly cited articles, within the first 3 days research scientists. However, altmetrics of their publication.[7] is a newly emerging scholarly tool, acts as a compliment to traditional Of more interest, well-known medical citation-based bibliometrics, measuring research funders and charities, e.g. the online attention surrounding scientific Welcome Trust, attracted to altmetrics research outputs.[1-3] Different data resources creating greater public engagement for altmetrics includes Twitter, Facebook, toward the research.[8] The altmetric status scientific blogs, news outlets, Google+, policy of neurosurgery journals,[9] radiology documents, post-publication peer reviews, journals,[10] dental journals,[11-15] emergency Address for correspondence: F1000 prime, Wikipedia, Weibo, Reddit, medicine,[16] etc., has previously been Dr. Jafar Kolahi, analyzed. Independent Research Scientist, Pinterest, patents, Video (e.g. YouTube), Founder and Associate Editor sites running Stack Exchange (Q and A) and Nevertheless, Iran experienced a great of Dental Hypotheses, No. 24, others.[4] In contrast with slowly-progressive Faree 15, Pardis, Shahin Shahr, development in knowledge creation during Isfahan 83179‑18981, Iran. traditional citation-based metrics, altmetrics [17-20] the last decade. Polynomial trendline E‑mail: [email protected] acts very fast, in which the majority of analysis of PubMed search results with altmetric resources up-dated on a daily basis. the term of “Iran[Affiliation]” revealed In contrast, less than 50% of articles were Access this article online [5] the fast growing of the number of Iranian cited before 3 years after publication. articles (y = 41.625x2-166263x + 2E + 08, Website: www.ijpvmjournal.net/www.ijpm.ir Among general and internal medical R2 = 0.9632). DOI: journals, the number of Twitter followers Hence, with respect to increasing demand 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_134_19 of disseminating research findings on the Quick Response Code: This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work How to cite this article: Kolahi J, Khazaei S, non‑commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and Bidram E, Kelishadi R. Altmetric analysis of the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. contemporary Iranian medical journals. Int J Prev For reprints contact: [email protected] Med 2019;10:112. www.SID.ir © 2019 International Journal of Preventive Medicine | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‑ Medknow 1 [Downloaded free from http://www.ijpvmjournal.net on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, IP: 94.199.136.196] Kolahi, et al.: Altmetrics of Iranian medical journals Archive of SID World Wide Web among the scientist, this study aims Among top 5% Iranian medical articles, multiple sclerosis, to analyze the altmetric statues of Iranian medical cancer, and anxiety listed as the most accruing keywords journals. (hot topics) [Figure 5]. Methods Co-citation network analysis illustrated American journal of clinical nutrition, Journal of nutrition and On February 27, 2019, a list of Iranian medical journals New England journal of medicine as the most affective was extracted from http://journals.research.ac.ir/, and journals on the network, considering the number of consequently altmetric data were derived from Altmetric citations [Figure 6]. database (Altmetric LLP, London, U.K.). Bibliometric Co-authorship network analysis displayed Askari G, data of Iranian popular medical articles and journals were Ghiasvand R and Khorvash F, had the most influence on retrieved from PubMed and Web of Science. The science the network considering number of articles [Figure 7]. mapping via keyword co-occurrence, co-citation and co-authorship network analysis was carried out using the Altmetric score correlated with news mentions (r = 0.85) VOSviewer 1.6.6 (www.vosviewer.com/, Leiden University and did not correlate with citations (r = 0.005); yet Centre for Science and Technology Studies). The Pearson Mendeley mentions correlated with citations (r = 0.80) coefficient was also employed for the correlation analysis [Figure 8]. using Rattle (graphical user interface for data science in R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Discussion Austria. http://www.R-project.org/)). Graphs were drawn by Number of social media users will increase to 3 billion Microsoft Office Excel 2016. by 2021 (http://bit.ly/2FsJVh4). Social media is a useful tool for dissemination of medical knowledge.[21] A good Results example would be Mayo Clinic Twitter account (@ A total of 104 journals were found with Altmetric mentions, MayoClinic) with more than 1.89 million followers [22] in which 7,518 articles were mentioned among Altmetric and 45600 tweets. “Measles, Mumps, Rubella data resources (Mean: 72.28, Confidence Level (95.0%): Vaccination and Autism” published at Annals of 16.8), total mentions were 27577 (Mean: 265.16, Internal Medicine, March 2019, would be a good [23] Confidence Level (95.0%): 79.9) [Figure 1 and Table 1]. illustration to show the power of social media. This Among top 5% (469 articles) popular articles, h-index was article experience 10040 tweets from 9256 users, with 25 and the average citations was 12.3 per item according to an upper bound of 21,393,283 followers. Remarkably, Web of Science. 83% of tweets were carried out by members of the public, 8% by scientists, 7% by practitioners (doctors, With respect to the total mentions of articles, other healthcare professionals) and 2% by science International Journal of Preventive Medicine achieved communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) (https:// the first rank, followed by Journal of Research in annals.altmetric.com/details/56459321). Medical Sciences and Iranian Journal of Public Health To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to [Figures 2 and 3]. analyze the altmetric status of Iranian medical journals. Twitter was the most popular altmetric resource Tweets and Facebook posts were the most prevalent among Iranian medical journals followed by Facebook altmetric resources, mostly from the United States and the and news outlets [Figure 4], with the most Tweets United Kingdom, indicating the international popularity generally from the United States and United Kingdom of Iranian journal research outputs. Disappointingly, [Table 2]. well-known Iranian journals are not active in Twittersphere. Alongside of legal limitations, lack of knowledge and attitude among Iranian editors, mainly influenced this 10000 trend. Previous studies indicated journals with their own 1000 Twitter page, received 34 percent