Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Dermatology
Date Submitted: Aug 20, 2020
Date Accepted: Oct 28, 2020
Assessment of Altmetric and PlumX metrics scoring as mechanisms to evaluate the top 100 Trending Hidradenitis Suppurativa information on social media: : A Cross-Sectional Analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Dermatologists are increasingly utilizing social media platforms to disseminate scientific information. New tools, such as Altmetrics and PlumX metrics, have been made available to rapidly capture the level of scientific article dissemination across social media platforms. However, no studies have been performed to assess the level of scientific article dissemination across social media regarding hidradenitis suppurativa, a disease that is still currently not well understood.
Objective:
The aim of our study was to evaluate the utility of Altmetrics and PlumX metrics by characterizing the top 100 ‘trending’ hidradenitis suppurativa articles in the Altmetric database by Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) and PlumX scores.
Methods:
Altmetric data components of the top 100 hidradenitis suppurativa articles were extracted and from the Altmetric database. Article citation-count was found using Web-of-Science. PlumX Weighted Impact scores for each article were collected from the Scopus database. Journal title, open-access status, article type, and study design of original articles were assessed. Additionally, AAS, PlumX scores, and citation-counts were log-transformed and adjusted by +1 for linear regression, and Spearman correlation coefficients were utilized to determine correlations.
Results:
Most of the top 100 ‘trending’ hidradenitis suppurativa articles were published in JAMA Dermatology (27%; Table 1). Median AAS, PlumX score, and citation-count were 25.5, 3.7, and 10.5 respectively. The most mentions of the social media platforms came from Twitter. Although no correlation was observed between citation-count and AAS (r2 = .019; P = .17), positive correlation was observed between citation-count and PlumX score (r2 = .469; P < .001).
Conclusions:
Our research demonstrates that citation-count is not correlated with AAS, but strongly correlated with PlumX scores regarding hidradenitis suppurativa articles at this point in time. With the continual increase of social media usage by medical professionals and researchers, this study can help investigators understand the best way to captivate their audience.
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