De Gregori Manuela, Scotti Valeria, De Silvestri Annalisa, Curti Moreno, Fanelli Guido, Allegri Massimo, Schatman Michael E
Pain Therapy Service, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Study In Multidisciplinary PAin Research Group, Parma, Italy; Young Against Pain Group, Parma, Italy.
Center for Scientific Documentation and Biometry Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
J Pain Res. 2016 Jun 11;9:391-5. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S104704. eCollection 2016.
In this study, we investigated the impact of scientific publications of the Italian SIMPAR (Study In Multidisciplinary PAin Research) group by using altmetrics, defined as nontraditional metrics constituting an alternative to more traditional citation-impact metrics, such as impact factor and H-index. By correlating traditional and alternative metrics, we attempted to verify whether publications by the SIMPAR group collectively had more impact than those performed by its individual members, either in solo publications or in publications coauthored by non-SIMPAR group investigators (which for the purpose of this study we will refer to as "individual publications"). For all the 12 members of the group analyzed (pain therapists, biologists, and pharmacologists), we created Open Researcher and Contributor ID and Impact Story accounts, and synchronized these data. Manually, we calculated the level metrics for each article by dividing the data obtained from the research community by those obtained from the public community. We analyzed 759 articles, 18 of which were published by the SIMPAR group. Altmetrics demonstrated that SIMPAR group publications were more likely to be saved (77.8% vs 45.9%), discussed (61.1% vs 1.1%, P<0.0001), and publicly viewed (11.1% vs 1.3%, P=0.05) than individual publications. These results support the importance of multidisciplinary research groups in the impact of scientific literature; the interaction and synergy among the research participants allowed the obtainment of high impact-literature in the field of personalized pain medicine. Finally, our findings demonstrate the potential of altmetrics in estimating the value of the research products of a group.
在本研究中，我们通过使用替代计量学来调查意大利SIMPAR（多学科疼痛研究）小组科学出版物的影响力。替代计量学被定义为构成传统引用影响力指标（如影响因子和H指数）替代方案的非传统指标。通过关联传统指标和替代指标，我们试图验证SIMPAR小组的出版物整体上是否比其成员个人的出版物（无论是单独发表的还是由非SIMPAR小组研究人员共同撰写的出版物，在本研究中我们将其称为“个人出版物”）具有更大的影响力。对于该小组分析的所有12名成员（疼痛治疗师、生物学家和药理学家），我们创建了开放研究者与贡献者身份（ORCID）和影响故事账户，并同步了这些数据。我们手动计算每篇文章的水平指标，方法是将从研究群体获得的数据除以从公众群体获得的数据。我们分析了759篇文章，其中18篇由SIMPAR小组发表。替代计量学表明，与个人出版物相比，SIMPAR小组的出版物更有可能被保存（77.8%对45.9%）、被讨论（61.1%对1.1%，P<0.0001）和被公众查看（11.1%对1.3%，P=0.05）。这些结果支持了多学科研究小组在科学文献影响力方面的重要性；研究参与者之间的互动和协同作用使得在个性化疼痛医学领域获得了高影响力的文献。最后，我们的研究结果证明了替代计量学在评估一个小组研究成果价值方面的潜力。
