Our long-term goal is to study public communication about science: understanding what the public thinks about scientific research is important for many reasons, from developing science policy, through making the case for technological developments and determining the impact of research, to simply being able to characterize the vibrant public discourse which marks a healthy society, in which sci...

The research field of altmetrics has gathered increased attention within scientometrics. Here, we pay particular attention to the connection between countries of readers of papers (at Mendeley) and countries of authors as well as citers of papers (from Web of Science). This study uses the Mendeley application programming interface to gather Mendeley reader statistics for the comprehensive F1000...

or to skim the text of the article quickly, while academics are more likely to download and print the paper. Further research investigating the ratio between HTML views and PDF downloads could uncover interesting findings about how the public interacts with the open access (OA) research literature. Scholars In addition to tracking scholarly impacts on traditionally invisible audiences, altmetri...

Social media has attracted the attention of the academic community as an emerging communication channel. This channel opens a new opportunity to measure the impact of social use of scholarly publications in social media (altmetrics) that supplements our understanding on the scholarly impact of publications (bibliometrics). Two different channels, social media and journal, are known to establish...

Altmetrics studies emerged ten years ago in the Global North context and after a few spread around world. The paper investigates who are Latin American researchers, which topics covered relationship between South Altmetric Studies. This study combines global mapping, social networks analysis Content Analysis, using Dimensions, VOSviewer Iramuteq to measure co-authorship, bibliographic coupling ...