Meta-Analysis of Correlations between Altmetric Attention Score and Citations in Health Sciences.

Jafar Kolahi Saber Khazaei Pedram Iranmanesh Jeehyoung Kim Heejung Bang Abbasali Khademi

Published in: BioMed research international (2021)

In health sciences, currently altmetric score has a positive but weak correlation with number of citations (pooled correlation = 0.19, 95% C.I 0.12 to 0.25). We emphasize on future examinations to assess changes of correlation pattern between altmetric score and citations over time.

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