The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China
China’s scientific output has risen precipitously over the past decade; it is now the world’s second-largest producer of scientific papers, behind only the United States. The quality of China’s research is also on the rise (Van Noorden, 2016). The online visibility and impact of China’s research are...
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| author | Xianwen Wang Zhichao Fang Qingchun Li Xinhui Guo |
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| description | China’s scientific output has risen precipitously over the past decade; it is now the world’s second-largest producer of scientific papers, behind only the United States. The quality of China’s research is also on the rise (Van Noorden, 2016). The online visibility and impact of China’s research are also important issues worth exploring. In this study, we investigate the altmetric performance of publications in the field of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology and published by authors from Chinese affiliations. We find that papers published by those authors from Chinese affiliations have much lower visibility on the social web than articles from other countries, when there is no significant difference for the citations. Fewer of China’s publications get tweeted, and those tweeted publications attract less social attention. A geographical analysis of tweeters shows that scholarly articles get most of their social attention from the authors’ home countries, a finding that is also confirmed by correlation and regression analysis. This situation, which is unfavorable for researchers from Chinese affiliations, is caused, in part, by the inaccessibility of mainstream social networking platforms in mainland China. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17da522bc28a48f0965451dd86119ba22022-12-21T22:21:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics2504-05372016-10-01110.3389/frma.2016.00008221357The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland ChinaXianwen Wang0Zhichao Fang1Qingchun Li2Xinhui Guo3WISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaWISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaWISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaWISE Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaChina’s scientific output has risen precipitously over the past decade; it is now the world’s second-largest producer of scientific papers, behind only the United States. The quality of China’s research is also on the rise (Van Noorden, 2016). The online visibility and impact of China’s research are also important issues worth exploring. In this study, we investigate the altmetric performance of publications in the field of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology and published by authors from Chinese affiliations. We find that papers published by those authors from Chinese affiliations have much lower visibility on the social web than articles from other countries, when there is no significant difference for the citations. Fewer of China’s publications get tweeted, and those tweeted publications attract less social attention. A geographical analysis of tweeters shows that scholarly articles get most of their social attention from the authors’ home countries, a finding that is also confirmed by correlation and regression analysis. This situation, which is unfavorable for researchers from Chinese affiliations, is caused, in part, by the inaccessibility of mainstream social networking platforms in mainland China.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00008/fullaltmetricssocial mediaopen accessChinatwitter |
| spellingShingle | Xianwen Wang Zhichao Fang Qingchun Li Xinhui Guo The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics altmetrics social media open access China |
| title | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China |
| title_full | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China |
| title_fullStr | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China |
| title_short | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China |
| title_sort | poor altmetric performance of publications authored by researchers in mainland china |
| topic | altmetrics social media open access China |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00008/full |
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