10.5281/zenodo.2591046
https://zenodo.org/records/2591046
oai:zenodo.org:2591046
Repiso, Rafael
Rafael
Repiso
0000-0002-2803-7505
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Castillo-Esparcia, Antonio
Antonio
Castillo-Esparcia
0000-0002-9751-8628
Universidad de Málaga
Torres-Salinas, Daniel
Daniel
Torres-Salinas
0000-0002-5648-250X
Universidad de Granada
Altmetrics, alternative indicators for Web of Science Communication journals
Zenodo
2019
Altmetrics
Journals
Communication
Mendeley
2019-03-10
eng
10.1007/s11192-019-03070
10.5281/zenodo.2591045
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The aim of this study is to analyse the occurrence of communication journals in the so-called Altmetrics (Facebook, Mendeley, Twitter, etc.) and how these indicators relate to each other and to the citations received. To this end, we study how the articles published by the Journal Citation Reports of the Web of Science for the 5-year period 2013–2017 on the Altmetric.com platform are registered. The results show how only a few platforms have significant coverage for studying the whole and in the case of Mendeley and Twit-ter, the coverage is superior to the citations offered by Web of Science. There is a proven relationship between citations and their occurrence on social media and platforms and their intensity varies by product. In general, the journals with the highest number of citations (Journal of Computer Mediated, Journal of Communication or New Media & Society) with few exceptions (Continuum) stand out.