Akova Fatih, Koyuncu Zehra, Erol Elif, Dogangun Burak, Guler Baysoy Nuket, Dokur Mehmet, Ozkilic Alper, Karadag Mehmet
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Biruni University, Istanbul, TUR.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Istanbul University-C, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, TUR.
Cureus. 2022 Mar 21;14(3):e23347. doi: 10.7759/cureus.23347. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Child abuse combines emotional, physical, sexual, and neglect aspects of violence, thus diversifying the trauma for a child. Publications about child abuse had been discussed in academia for long years and evaluated by bibliometric analysis, frequently. This study aims to evaluate the most discussed/disseminated scientific publications about child abuse in electronic media such as social media accounts, blogs, podcasts, and media news sites using a new analysis method called altmetric analysis.
The data were obtained from the Altmetric Explorer database using the phrase "child abuse," in 2021. After being ranked by altmetric attention score (AAS), descriptive statistics for all publications as well as detailed analyses for the first-100 publications were performed. Variables evaluated were AAS, dimensions-badge value, distribution of web sources, demographic/geographic-breakdown type distributions, main subject categories, and mesh terms. Kruskal Wallis test was used for AAS and dimensions-badge value comparisons while Spearman correlations and regression analysis were also performed. Analyses were performed by SPSS 23.0 (IBM SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Publications about child abuse were shared extensively on social media, mostly on Twitter. In terms of the main subject, sexual abuse was the trending topic, followed by physical abuse and maltreatment. Psychology, studies in human society, health sciences, and law/legal issues were the four main science categories about the subject. The United States was the major disseminator of publications while Child Abuse and Neglect was the most productive journal. There was a weak but significant (p<0.05) positive correlation between AAS and dimensions-badge values.
Child abuse is a multidimensional subject in social media. As the number of publications increases, the possibility of articles to be shared on different social media platforms also increases. The majority of the top-100 publications are the ones emphasizing the importance of child abuse in terms of the prevalence, individual/social burden, and negative consequences.
虐待儿童涵盖了暴力行为的情感、身体、性以及忽视等方面，从而使儿童所遭受的创伤呈现出多样性。关于虐待儿童的出版物在学术界已被讨论多年，并且经常通过文献计量分析进行评估。本研究旨在使用一种名为替代计量分析的新方法，评估在社交媒体账户、博客、播客和媒体新闻网站等电子媒体中关于虐待儿童讨论最多/传播最广的科学出版物。
2021年，通过在替代计量资源浏览器数据库中使用“虐待儿童”这一短语获取数据。在按替代计量关注度得分（AAS）进行排名后，对所有出版物进行描述性统计，并对排名前100的出版物进行详细分析。所评估的变量包括AAS、维度-徽章值、网络来源分布、人口统计学/地理细分类型分布、主要主题类别和医学主题词。使用Kruskal Wallis检验进行AAS和维度-徽章值的比较，同时还进行了Spearman相关性分析和回归分析。分析使用SPSS 23.0（美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥市IBM SPSS公司）进行，p<0.05被认为具有统计学意义。
关于虐待儿童的出版物在社交媒体上被广泛分享，主要是在推特上。就主要主题而言，性虐待是热门话题，其次是身体虐待和虐待行为。心理学、人类社会研究、健康科学以及法律/法律问题是关于该主题的四个主要科学类别。美国是出版物的主要传播者，而《虐待儿童与忽视》是产出最多的期刊。AAS与维度-徽章值之间存在微弱但显著（p<0.05）的正相关。
虐待儿童在社交媒体中是一个多维度的主题。随着出版物数量的增加，文章在不同社交媒体平台上被分享的可能性也会增加。排名前100的出版物大多强调了虐待儿童在患病率、个人/社会负担以及负面后果方面的重要性。
