Go to the landing page of Nursing Open and click on an issue and then on an article and above the tabs that take you to the content of the article you will see a coloured indicator labelled ‘AM score’ and, in some cases, a number next to it. That number is the Altmetric score; Altmetrics being a contraction of ‘alternative metrics’. This score indicates the extent to which the article has recei...

The main guiding editorial principle of Heart is to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular disease by publishing high-impact innovative clinically relevant original cardiovascular research. However, it can be difficult to specify exactly what defines “high-impact”. In addition to the traditional Impact Factor ( Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2015) used for medical journals...

This article aims to exploit social exchanges on scientific literature, specifically tweets, analyse media users’ sentiments towards publications within a research field. First, we employ the SentiStrength tool, extended with newly created lexicon terms, classify of 6,482,260 tweets associated 1,083,535 provided by Altmetric.com. Then, propose harmonic means-based statistical measures generate ...

Background and aims: Considering that Up-to-date database is one of the well-known and reliable databases in the field of evidence-based medicine (EBM), it is expected that the referred papers in the articles are the valid ones on the topic concerned. The aim of this study was to evaluate the credibility and acceptability of the references of the Articles in the Field of Pediatrics Nutrition on...

Abstract In order to be able provide thorough and timely coverage on the most recent scientific research, science journalists frequently rely embargoed information sent them by publishers of journals. such embargo e-mails, purposefully bring selected upcoming releases journalists’ attention a few days in advance their publication. Little is known how this early highlighting certain research art...