Accepted for/Published in: Interactive Journal of Medical Research
Date Submitted: Jul 10, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Mar 27, 2024 - May 27, 2024
Date Accepted: Apr 29, 2024
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Online Visibility and Scientific Relevance of Strabismus Research: Bibliometric Analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Quality and accuracy of online scientific data are crucial given the internet and social media serve nowadays as primary sources of medical knowledge.
Objective:
Our study aims to assess the relationship between online visibility and the scientific relevance of strabismus research.
Methods:
We used the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) as a proxy for online visibility whereas citations and the journal’s impact factor served as a metric for scientific robustness. We identified articles including the keyword “strabismus” and evaluated the correlation between the aforementioned variables within the 100 articles with the highest AAS and 100 articles with the highest number of citations.
Results:
We demonstrated a significant, but weak correlation between online visibility and citations (P = .04, r = .22). We found no correlation between the Altmetric Score and the journal's impact factor (P = .15) or time (P = .37). For the 100 articles with the highest number of citations we found no correlation between the citations and the Altmetric Attention Score (P = .73) or the impact factor of the journal (P = .15).
Conclusions:
Highly cited research related to strabismus is not always the most shared on social media. Therefore, researchers should make a greater effort to share high-impact articles related to strabismus on social media platforms to improve accessibility and quality of evidence-based knowledge for patients.
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