Scholarly Research Articles Published from Anna University, Tamil Nadu during 2011-2016: An Altmetrics Evaluation
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2017-08
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This paper presents an altmetrics evaluation of scholarly publications of Anna University published
during 2011-2016, and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 5056 publications, i.e.
only articles with a total of 25850 citations was collected. The other types of published materials
such as reviews, book chapters, editorial materials, and proceedings papers have not been considered
for this study. Among those 5056 publications, only 4306 (85.17%) publications which were
found to have DOI were considered for this study. Webometric Analyst 2.0 software was used to
retrieve the altmetrics data from Altmetric.com for those 4306 articles by fetching queries of 4306
DOIs. It was found that only 361 publications were having altmetrics data as per the data retrieved
from Altmetric.com which includes online readership / posts / attentions / mentions, etc. Further, this
paper presents the year-wise growth of publications and citations, presence of altmetrics data by
their sources, altmetrics mentions across WoS - Broad Subject categories, most prominent publications
as per their altmetrics score, and finally reveals the Twitter demographics and geographic
(country) of tweets / mentions for these publications from Anna University.
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Altmetrics, Scholarly Research Article, Anna University, Altmetric.com, Social Media, Twitter