Altmetrics of open access brazilian journal articles in ScienceOpen: the reason for mentions

Authors

  • Ronaldo Ferreira Araujo Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Comunicação e Artes, Curso de Biblioteconomia. Maceió, Brasil. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0778-9561
  • Marlene Oliveira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Organização e Tratamento da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão e Organização do Conhecimento. Belo Horizonte, Brasil. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2834-1272
  • Elaine Rosangela de Oliveira Lucas Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Biblioteconomia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestao da Informação. Florianópolis, Brasil. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-3566

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i0.1376

Keywords:

altmetrics, mention analysis, open access, ScienceOpen.

Abstract

This study aims to contribute to a debate about qualitative studies in the field of altmetrics applying the analysis of mentions of Araújo and Furnival (2016) to a set of articles of open access journals present in ScienceOpen of the SciELO Brazil Collection. We identified 1,976 altmetric data from articles published between 2001 and 2015. Most of the data generated came from Twitter (68.9%), followed by Facebook (18.4%) and Mendeley (12.3%). The mentions are distributed according to their informative content (55.1%) and conversational (44.9%) aspects, with predominantly simple sharing (57.5%), followed by explanatory comments (17.4%), and of exortative narratives (15.8%). Messages that criticize or problematize articles have not been registered. We conclude that due to the few studies on the subject it is necessary to invest in proposals that consider the analysis of the mentions to understand the nuances of the circulation of scientific information in the social web and its perspectives.

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Published

2017-11-30

How to Cite

Araujo, R. F., Oliveira, M., & Lucas, E. R. de O. (2017). Altmetrics of open access brazilian journal articles in ScienceOpen: the reason for mentions. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 11. https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i0.1376

Issue

Vol. 11 (2017): Suplemento

Section

Pecha Kucha

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