RESEARCH OUTPUT ON ALTMETRICS: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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  • Kuladip Barman Author
  • Nayana Borah Author

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyse the research output on Altmetrics, indexed in Scopus database. A total 867 publications were collected for the study. The study revealed that the number of publications is increasing gradually except 2020, major document type was article (65.86%); most dominant subject area is Social Sciences (65.86%) followed by Computer Science (%); highest number of publications are contributed by United States (29.419%) followed by United Kingdom (14.187%). Altmetrics is the keyword which occur highest numberof times i.e., 566 in the database. Thewall M is the most productive author having 40 number of publications.It also revealed that most preferred language for publication is English, Scientometrics was having the highest number of publications 117(13.495%) followed by Journal of Informetrics 31(3.575).

Keywords: Altmetrics; Annual Growth Rate; Frequency of occurrence Scientometric study; VOSviewer

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Published

2024-09-01

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Vol. 58 No. 4 (2022)

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RESEARCH OUTPUT ON ALTMETRICS: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS (Kuladip Barman & Nayana Borah , Trans.). (2024). Journal of Indian Library Association, 58(4), 1-12. https://journal.ilaindia.net/index.php/lib/article/view/374