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Altmetrics indicators for measuring the readers' intentions towards the highly cited articles in knowledge sharing

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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Title Altmetrics indicators for measuring the readers' intentions towards the highly cited articles in knowledge sharing
 
Creator Jabur, Naeema H
 
Subject Social sciences;Information studies, knowledge impact
Social media communication; Altmetrics indicator; Scholarly contents; Readers' intentions; Interdisciplinarity
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Description AbstractsThe limited applications of the citation analysis inspire academics and editors to think of other alternative non-citation measure that catch the academic and public readers' online intentions as well. Altmetrics is considered as alternative impact matric for measuring the intentions (find, download, cite, use, shared, recommend, or discuss) towards scholarly contents in peer reviewed journals, databases, open access sources, etcThe study intends to explore the readers' intentions (publicity) towards the highly cited articles in knowledge sharing within the major subject areas interested in the topic and their characteristics. It also aims at inspecting the interdisciplinarity among the highest cited articles within the major subject areas. The results concluded that there were high correlations between citations and intentions in social sciences, business, and medicine. The results also resolved that social media paths such as Mendeley, Twitter, Blogs and many others unquestionably will facilitate academic as well as public communication worldwide.
 
Publisher Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
 
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Date 2017-12-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/3943
10.14738/assrj.424.3943
 
Source Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; Vol 4, No 24 (2017): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
10.14738/assrj.424.2017
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/3943/2374
 
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