Impacto de altmetrics sobre a visibilidade de artigos em acesso aberto da enfermagem brasileira: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The dissemination and establishment of social media as spaces of interaction, sources of research, and means of production and
dissemination of information among scientists, expanded the possibilities of evaluating a scientifi c artifact beyond its citations. In
this article, we assess the impact of Mendeley, Facebook, and Twitter on the visibility and number of citations of articles published in
Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem (Rio Grande do Sul Nursing Journal) in a period of ten years (2007-2016). The data providers for
the investigation were the CINAHL and Scopus databases. The platform used to collect altmetrics was PlumX. A total of 948 papers published by the journal, 2,150 citations received, 7,072 catches in Mendeley and 359 activities on Twitter and Facebook were analyzed. The results demonstrate the visibility the articles obtained even though they were not mentioned in other works. The visibility of journal articles is evidenced by the small volume of articles that were not cited or mentioned in social media (11.2%). The results showed that non-cited works had an altmetric impact through actions in other academic social media or not.