Department of Anaesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2020 Jul;64(6):823-828. doi: 10.1111/aas.13575. Epub 2020 Mar 16.
Different metrics exist to evaluate the impact of a paper. Traditionally, scientific citations are leading, but nowadays new, internet-based, metrics like downloads or Altmetric Attention Score receive increasing attention. We hypothesised a gap between these metrics, reflected by a divergence between scientific and clinical appreciation of anaesthesia literature.
We collected the top 100 most cited and the top 100 most downloaded articles in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (AAS) and Anesthesia & Analgesia (A&A) published between 2014 and 2018. We analysed the relationship between the average number of citations per year, downloads per year and Altmetric Attention Score.
For both AAS and A&A, a significant correlation between the 100 most cited articles and their downloads (r = .573 and .603, respectively, P < .001) was found. However, only a poor correlation with Altmetric Attention Score was determined. For the 100 most downloaded articles, download frequency did not correlate with their number of citations (r = .035 and .139 respectively), but did correlate significantly with the Altmetric Attention Score (r = .458 and .354, P < .001).
Highly cited articles are downloaded more frequently. The most downloaded articles, however, did not receive more citations. In contrast to the most cited articles, more frequently downloaded papers had a higher Altmetric Attention Score. Thus, a 'trending' anaesthesia paper is not a prerequisite for scientific appreciation, reflecting a gap between clinical and scientific appreciation of literature.
有不同的指标可以用来评估一篇论文的影响力。传统上,科学引文是主要的指标,但现在像下载量或 Altmetric 关注度这样的新的基于互联网的指标越来越受到关注。我们假设这些指标之间存在差距,这反映了科学界和临床界对麻醉学文献的评价存在分歧。
我们收集了 2014 年至 2018 年期间 Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica(AAS)和 Anesthesia & Analgesia(A&A)上发表的前 100 篇被引最多和下载量最多的文章。我们分析了每年平均引文数、下载量和 Altmetric 关注度之间的关系。
对于 AAS 和 A&A,都发现被引最多的文章与其下载量之间存在显著相关性(r 分别为.573 和.603,P<0.001)。然而,与 Altmetric 关注度的相关性较差。对于下载量最多的 100 篇文章,下载频率与被引数量之间没有相关性(r 分别为.035 和.139),但与 Altmetric 关注度显著相关(r 分别为.458 和.354,P<0.001)。
高被引文章被下载得更频繁。然而,下载量最多的文章并没有获得更多的引文。与被引最多的文章不同,下载量更多的文章有更高的 Altmetric 关注度。因此,一篇“热门”的麻醉学论文并不是受到科学界认可的前提,这反映了临床界和科学界对文献评价的差距。