Assessing the Dissemination of COVID-19 Articles Across Social Media With Altmetric and PlumX Metrics: Correlational Study.
Haley N TornbergCarine J MoeziniaChapman WeiSimone A BernsteinChaplin WeiRefka Al-BeyatiTheodore QuanDavid J DiemertPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)
Our study demonstrated that citation count weakly correlated with AASs and strongly correlated with PlumX scores, with regard to COVID-19 articles at this point in time. Altmetric and PlumX metrics should be used to complement traditional citation counts when assessing the dissemination and impact of a COVID-19 article.