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Investigating the Relationship between Altmetrics indicators and Scientometric indicators of Iranian researchers in the field of nursing in the period 2000-2019.

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1 Assistant Professor, Payame Noor University, Iran.

2 PhD, Knowledge and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the effect of Altmetrics indicators of Mendeley resource management database on scientometric indicators in Scopus and Web of Science citation databases. The present study is an applied and descriptive research that has been done by scientometric method with Altmetrics approach. The statistical sample for the study includes Iranian researchers in the field of nursing who had an indexed document in the Scopus citation database, in the period 2000-2019 and on the date of the research (20/03/2020), and was also a member of the Mendeley resource management database. There were 158 high-profile authors introduced by Scopus. Findings illustrated that there is no significant relationship between the h-index in Scopus and the followers' index in Mendeley. However, there is a significant relationship between the other indicators studied in these two databases. There is also a significant relationship between co-authorship index, h-index, citations, readers, publications, and viewers in Mendeley scientific social network with indexes of citation number and h-index in the Web of Science citation database. But there is no significant relationship between the follower’s index and these indicators. Examining the relationship between the numbers of citations received in Mendeley, Scopus, and Web of Science shows that there is a significant relationship between the numbers of citations received in these databases. Respectively, the strongest correlation, in this case, is between the citation index received in the Mendeley and Web of Science database, Mendeley and Scopus, and finally Scopus and Web of science. There is also a significant relationship between the etch index in the Mendeley, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. The correlation between the Mendeley h-index and Web of Science is stronger than the correlation between the Mendeley h-index and Scopus.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.3.12.9  

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International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)
Volume 20, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
July 2022
Pages 215-225
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  • Receive Date: 22 August 2021
  • Revise Date: 29 September 2023
  • Accept Date: 03 December 2022
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