Scientific findings are disseminated as original investigation articles but influential
medical journals also publish opinion articles. Although opinion articles provide
less citable information than original investigations, it is not known whether they
generate other types of interest and social web mentions may serve as a proxy indicator
of wider interest. Altmetrics (such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs and newspapers) may
provide evidence of informal academic interest as well as the spreading of research
beyond its classical boundaries [
[1]
]. The objectives of this study were to use social web data to compare the attention
received by opinion articles with that received by original investigations in leading
medical journals, using citation counts for both as a baseline.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: March 25, 2017
Accepted:
March 20,
2017
Received:
March 17,
2017
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© 2017 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
