TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tornberg, Haley
AU  - Moezinia, Carine
AU  - Wei, Chapman
AU  - Bernstein, Simone A
AU  - Wei, Chaplin
AU  - Al-Beyati, Refka
AU  - Quan, Theodore
AU  - Diemert, David J
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/7/12
TI  - Assessment of the Dissemination of COVID-19–Related Articles Across Social Media: Altmetrics Study
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e41388
VL  - 7
KW  - Altmetric
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - citation
KW  - dissemination
KW  - information spread
KW  - impact factor
KW  - information
KW  - social media
KW  - bibliometric
KW  - scientometric
KW  - health professional
KW  - Twitter
KW  - database
KW  - data
AB  - Background: The use of social media assists in the distribution of information about COVID-19 to the general public and health professionals. Alternative-level metrics (ie, Altmetrics) is an alternative method to traditional bibliometrics that assess the extent of dissemination of a scientific article on social media platforms. Objective: Our study objective was to characterize and compare traditional bibliometrics (citation count) with newer metrics (Altmetric Attention Score [AAS]) of the top 100 Altmetric-scored articles on COVID-19. Methods: The top 100 articles with the highest AAS were identified using the Altmetric explorer in May 2020. AAS, journal name, and mentions from various social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, Mendeley, and Dimension) were collected for each article. Citation counts were collected from the Scopus database. Results: The median AAS and citation count were 4922.50 and 24.00, respectively. TheNew England Journal of Medicine published the most articles (18/100, 18%). Twitter was the most frequently used social media platform with 985,429 of 1,022,975 (96.3%) mentions. Positive correlations were observed between AAS and citation count (r2=0.0973; P=.002). Conclusions: Our research characterized the top 100 COVID-19–related articles by AAS in the Altmetric database. Altmetrics could complement traditional citation count when assessing the dissemination of an article regarding COVID-19. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID): RR2-10.2196/21408 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e41388
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/41388
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37343075
DO  - 10.2196/41388
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/41388
ER  -