Afsaneh Bazrafshan; Ali Biranvand; Ali Shojaeifard
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether PlumX Altmetric scores can predict the Scopus citation counts for the field of Particle Physics. Also, to examine the relationship between the number of citations received by particle physics highly cited documents in Scopus and their Altmetric ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether PlumX Altmetric scores can predict the Scopus citation counts for the field of Particle Physics. Also, to examine the relationship between the number of citations received by particle physics highly cited documents in Scopus and their Altmetric scores in PlumX. The sample consists of 103 highly cited documents in Particle Physics indexed during 2000-2019 in Scopus. In order to examine the relationship between Scopus citation counts and PlumX Altmetric scores, Spearman’s correlation test and multiple regression analysis used. The result of the Spearman’s correlation analysis shows a strong relationship between the number of PlumX citations and Scopus citations. Furthermore, PlumX Captures and PlumX Mentions have a significant relationship with Scopus citation counts, but there is no relationship between PlumX Usage and PlumX Social Media. The results of regression analysis show that PlumX Citations, Captures, Usage, Mentions, and Social Media, respectively predict 62, 60, 55, and 47 percent of Scopus citation counts. Based on these results, one can conclude that PlumX Altmetric scores can predict the number of Scopus citations, and an increase in activity in PlumX lays the ground for receiving more citations by documents in Scopus.
