How many scientific papers are mentioned in policy-related documents? An empirical investigation using Web of Science and Altmetric data.
How many scientific papers are mentioned in policy-related documents? An empirical investigation using Web of Science and Altmetric data.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-016-2237-2
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Bornmann L
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作者：
Haunschild R;Bornmann L
在这个简短的交流中，我们提供了一个相对较新的altmetrics数据源的概述，这些数据可能用于科学计量学中的社会影响测量。最近，Altmetric-一家提供出版物水平指标的初创公司-开始提供政策相关文件中提到的出版物数据。使用Altmetric的数据，我们研究了有多少论文在Web of Science（WoS）中被索引，在政策相关的文件中被提及。我们发现，在不同学科类别中发表的论文中，只有不到0.5%的论文在政策相关文件中至少被提及一次。根据我们的研究结果，我们建议定期（每年）重复分析至少有一次与政策相关的（WoS）出版物，以检查数据的有用性。在跟踪新的政策相关网站之前，不应将政策相关文件中的提及用于影响衡量。
In this short communication, we provide an overview of a relatively newly provided source of altmetrics data which could possibly be used for societal impact measurements in scientometrics. Recently, Altmetric—a start-up providing publication level metrics—started to make data for publications available which have been mentioned in policy-related documents. Using data from Altmetric, we study how many papers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) are mentioned in policy-related documents. We find that less than 0.5% of the papers published in different subject categories are mentioned at least once in policy-related documents. Based on our results, we recommend that the analysis of (WoS) publications with at least one policy-related mention is repeated regularly (annually) in order to check the usefulness of the data. Mentions in policy-related documents should not be used for impact measurement until new policy-related sites are tracked.