Altmetrics at institutional level: Visibility on the web of the scientific production of Spanish universities from Altmetric.com

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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.may.03

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Altmétricas, Universidades, España, Altmetric.com, Indicadores bibliométricos, Producción cientí­fica, Visibilidad, Redes sociales, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia.

Abstract

This study focuses on the publications of Spanish universities indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during 2014-2016 (125,824 articles) and calculates 17 indicators with Altmetric.com. Three objectives have been established: 1) to offer a general perspective of the altmetrics in Spanish universities, 2) to determine the coverage of Altmetric.com in the Spanish case and 3) to establish which are the most relevant altmetrics. The results show that 42% of the articles in the WoS are indexed in Altmetric.com. The indicators generated by Twitter, the digital press, Facebook and Wikipedia explain 82% of the variance. As conclusions, it is pointed out that: a) publishing in high impact journals and in areas such as Medicine and Biology helps universities to obtain better altmetrics; and b) a small number of indicators is enough to determine the altmetric impact.

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Daniel Torres-Salinas, Universidad de Granada (EC3metrics y Medialab UGR) y Universidad de Navarra, CTT, Gran Ví­a 48, E-18071, Granada (España)

Daniel Torres-Salinas, doctor en documentación cientí­fica por la Universidad de Granada, trabaja en dicha Universidad y en la Universidad de Navarra. Es investigador en el Grupo de Investigación Evaluación de la Ciencia y la Comunicación Cientí­fica (EC3) sobre temas bibliométricos. Asimismo es CEO de la spin-off de asesorí­a cientí­fica EC3metrics y responsable de la lí­nea de Ciencia Digital del Medialab UGR. Es co-creador de herramientas de evaluación de la investigación como Cientí­ficacvn, Rankings I-UGR de Universidades, Clasificación integrada de revistas cientí­ficas (CIRC), Bipublishers o UGRinvestiga. Tiene indexadas más de 50 publicaciones cientí­ficas en la base de datos Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)

Pedro-Ángel Castillo-Valdivieso, Universidad de Granada, Depto. de Arquitectura y Tecnologí­a de Computadores, C/Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, E-18071, Granada (España)

Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso es Doctor en Informática por la Universidad de Granada (2000), donde también obtuvo la Licenciatura en Informática (1997). Fue Profesor Asociado en el Depto. de Informática de la Universidad de Jaén, en el Campus de Linares en 1999. En la actualidad es Profesor Titular de Universidad en el Depto. de Arquitectura y Tecnologí­a de Computadores de la Universidad de Granada. Ha sido investigador visitante en la Napier University, Edinburg U.K. (1998) y en el Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe N.M. (2000). Ha dirigido varios proyectos de investigación, tanto a nivel nacional como autonómico, y ha co-dirigido cuatro tesis doctorales. Sus áreas de investigación principales se centran en los sistemas bio-inspirados, optimización de redes neuronales, predicción de series temporales, y la inteligencia computacional en juegos.

Álvaro Pérez-Luque, Universidad de Granada, Servicio Central de Informática, C/ Profesor Adolfo Rancaño E-18071, Granada (España)

Álvaro Pérez-Luque es Graduado en Ingenierí­a Informática por la Universidad de Granada, especialidad Tecnologí­as de la Información. Y Técnico Superior en Administración de Sistemas en Red, por el C.E.S Ramón y  Cajal de Granada.En la actualidad trabaja en el C.S.I.R.C. de la  Universidad de Granada como desarrollador en Oracle Developer. Sus áreas de trabajo son,  desarrollo y mantenimiento de aplicaciones en Oracle y desarrollo de  aplicaciones basadas en Web Services.

Esteban Romero-Frí­as, Universidad de Granada, Medialab UGR, CTT, Gran Ví­a 48, Granada

Esteban Romero Frí­as  (http://estebanromero.com/; @polisea) es Profesor Titular de la Universidad de Granada en el Departamento de Economí­a Financiera y Contabilidad. Actualmente es Director de Medialab UGR - Laboratorio de Investigación en Cultura y Sociedad Digital (http://medialab.ugr.es/) de la Universidad de Granada. Sus trabajos de investigación se han centrado principalmente en la aplicación de técnicas webmétricas al campo de la empresa y la polí­tica, así­ como en el empleo de tecnologí­as digitales en educación  Actualmente trabaja en temas de cultura digital, digital scholarship y Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales.

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2018-06-17

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Torres-Salinas, D., Castillo-Valdivieso, P.- Ángel, Pérez-Luque, Álvaro, & Romero-Frí­as, E. (2018). Altmetrics at institutional level: Visibility on the web of the scientific production of Spanish universities from Altmetric.com. Profesional De La información, 27(3), 483–492. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.may.03

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Vol. 27 No. 3 (2018): Indicadores II / Libro electrónico

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