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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 6/2019

01-06-2019 | General Medicine | Concise Research Reports

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study

Authors: Amr F. Barakat, MD, Nayef Nimri, MD, Mohamed Shokr, MD, Dhruv Mahtta, MD, Hend Mansoor, PharmD, MS, Ahmad Masri, MD, Islam Y. Elgendy, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 6/2019

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Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) is an emerging tool that measures the online presence of published articles. AAS represents a sum of article mentions on social media, e.g., Twitter, and news outlets (Digital Science, London, UK). AAS is increasingly used by journals as an integral article metric. While some studies have assessed the correlation between AAS and the number of citations in several disciplines and specialties,1‐4 it remains unclear whether AAS correlates with article citations among high-impact general medicine journals. …
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Metadata
Title
Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score and Citations for High-Impact General Medicine Journals: a Cross-sectional Study
Authors
Amr F. Barakat, MD
Nayef Nimri, MD
Mohamed Shokr, MD
Dhruv Mahtta, MD
Hend Mansoor, PharmD, MS
Ahmad Masri, MD
Islam Y. Elgendy, MD
Publication date
01-06-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 6/2019
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-04838-6

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