The Role of Social Media in Sports Vision

Background: Sports vision is a relatively new specialty. The objective to provide ophthalmological and optometric care services for the of in sports field. An increasing number athletes coaches are trying improve visual skills they seek information on social media. current excess has made it increasingly difficult identify high quality articles. For this reason, alternative metrics useful tools publications that draw attention society. This research aims study influence networks importance sport. Methods: Altmetric Explorer was used perform search using “sport”, “vision” “eye” as keywords. 100 outcomes with most were analyzed correlated citations Web Science (WoS) Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: best Attention Scores (AASs) published 67 journals had mean AAS value 30.22 ± 62.37 results discussed mainly Twitter, 113.99 43.86 tweets retweets 75.92 79.92 readers Mendeley. There no between WoS Cites top low if we considered total rather than 100. Conclusions: not related impact scientific articles networks. specialty growing interest