[Purpose/significance] The factors that affect the coverage of altmetrics are discussed, which lays the foundation for the usage of altmetrics in academic evaluation.[Method/process] Based on Web of Science, Altmetric.com and Mendeley, the paper selected five disciplines' article papers published in 1996-2015, and discussed their differences of altmetrics coverage in terms of discipline, publishing year, journal, country and language.[Result/conclusion] Firstly, different altmetrics indicators have different coverage, and Mendeley is the highest. However, most indicators are very low. Secondly, it is necessary to distinguish and exclude the phenomenon of high coverage caused by the promotion strategy of journals when evaluating with altmetrics. Lastly, the coverage of altmetrics for different disciplines, year of publication, journals, countries and languages is different; therefore, it is necessary to consider the differences among different papers in the above factors when evaluating with altmetrics. When necessary, standardization should be taken into account.
Liu Xiaojuan
,
Yu Mengxia
. Analysis of Influence Factors and Application of Altmetrics Coverage[J]. Library and Information Service, 2018
, 62(16)
: 92
-101
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2018.16.011
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