Thematic orientation and correlation coefficient for comparison between altmetric data and citations: an analysis of the journal Datagramazero
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Altmetrics. Citation. Correlation Coefficient.Abstract
The paper intends to verify the relationship between altmetrics and citation analysis using thematic orientation as a trace identifier for the works analysed, as well as Pearson's correlation coefficient. Therefore 441 articles from the journal DataGramaZero were categorized by a taxonomy featuring ten Information Science research themes. The category "Theoretical and general aspects of information science" was highlighted with more articles cited and a greater attention online. It was perceived that the two variables tend to behave similarly in relation to the time of publication, however, a low correlation between the number of mention and the number of citations for each article was noted. When the coefficients of the two variables weighted averages were calculated for thematic orientations, the correlation became moderate (P = 0,65). The results were similar to previous findings in the literature, reinforcing the potential of the Pearson's correlation coefficient for metric studies in information science.Downloads
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