Haunschild Robin, Bornmann Lutz
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Scientometrics. 2017;110(3):1209-1216. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-2237-2. Epub 2017 Jan 9.
In this short communication, we provide an overview of a relatively newly provided source of altmetrics data which could possibly be used for societal impact measurements in scientometrics. Recently, Altmetric-a start-up providing publication level metrics-started to make data for publications available which have been mentioned in policy-related documents. Using data from Altmetric, we study how many papers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) are mentioned in policy-related documents. We find that less than 0.5% of the papers published in different subject categories are mentioned at least once in policy-related documents. Based on our results, we recommend that the analysis of (WoS) publications with at least one policy-related mention is repeated regularly (annually) in order to check the usefulness of the data. Mentions in policy-related documents should not be used for impact measurement until new policy-related sites are tracked.
在这篇简短的通讯中，我们概述了一个相对较新的替代计量学数据来源，它可能用于科学计量学中的社会影响评估。最近，Altmetric（一家提供出版物层面计量指标的初创公司）开始提供在政策相关文件中被提及的出版物数据。利用Altmetric的数据，我们研究了在科学引文索引（WoS）中被索引的论文有多少在政策相关文件中被提及。我们发现，不同学科类别的已发表论文中，在政策相关文件中至少被提及一次的不到0.5%。基于我们的研究结果，我们建议定期（每年）重复对至少有一次政策相关提及的（WoS）出版物进行分析，以检验数据的有用性。在追踪新的政策相关网站之前，政策相关文件中的提及不应被用于影响评估。
