How Does Social Media Impact the Number of Citations? An Altmetric Analysis of the 50 Most-Cited MicroRNA Articles

Abstract

Objective: Altmetric analysis is web-based a metric analysis. Social media platforms affect medical literature over the last few years. Thealtmetric Attention Score (AAS) is an automatically calculated metric for monitoring social media. This study aimed to determine thecorrelation between AAS and the number of citations received from important articles published in the last 11 years with microRNAs.Methods: MicroRNA as a search term was entered into the Web of Science database to identify all articles. The most 50 cited articles were analyzed by Topic, Journal Name, First Author, Publication Year, Citation, Average Citation Per Year (ACPY), Impact Factor(IF), Quartile (Q) Category, H Index, and AAS.Results: Altmetric explorer identified 45.911 articles as being referred to online. Correlation analysis revealed that there was a weakcorrelation between AAS and the number of citations (p