Afsaneh Bazrafshan; Ali Biranvand; Ali Shojaeifard
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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 ...
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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.
Dorna Rezania; Majidreza Moghanipour; Seyed Javad Zafarmand
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Studying the process of producing scientific articles in any field of knowledge can provide a clear picture of the scientific trajectory of a journal and identify research gaps in that area. Meantime, reviewing the published researches in tourism studies can provide a correct understanding of theoretical ...
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Studying the process of producing scientific articles in any field of knowledge can provide a clear picture of the scientific trajectory of a journal and identify research gaps in that area. Meantime, reviewing the published researches in tourism studies can provide a correct understanding of theoretical approaches, methods, and techniques used by researchers. Moreover, it indicates how theoretical development and methodological progress can provide documentary information. It presents the evolution and process of conducting these researches over a specific period of time; yet it can provide clear vision of limitations, harms, and issues that need more attention from researchers, as well as managers and planners in this field. The purpose of this study is to review scientific articles published in the journal "Tourism Management Studies" based on four components: characteristics, pattern of participation of authors and methodological, citation, and functional characteristics of articles. The research method is descriptive, and the content analysis method has been used specifically. The collection of information is in the form of libraries and the method of their analysis is quantitative. Samples are 219 articles (N = 219), including all articles published in Tourism Management Studies journal, during 2012-2018, in 8 periods and 32 issues (17-48). Study result has revealed a clear picture of authors' participatory patterns, as well as the methodological, functional and citation features of articles. It also describes the trajectory and trend of stability or changes in each of the patterns and features studied during eight years of this journal.
