An extensive analysis of the presence of altmetric data for Web of Science publications across subject fields and research topics

• Published in: Scientometrics Vol. 124; no. 3; pp. 2519 - 2549
• Main Authors: Fang, Zhichao, Costas, Rodrigo, Tian, Wencan, Wang, Xianwen, Wouters, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Computer Science; Documents; Earth sciences; Information Storage and Retrieval; Informetrics; Library Science; Social sciences; Hot topics; Data intensity; Social attention; Social media metrics; Data coverage; Altmetrics

Sufficient data presence is one of the key preconditions for applying metrics in practice. Based on both Altmetric.com data and Mendeley data collected up to 2019, this paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the presence of 12 kinds of altmetric events for nearly 12.3 million Web of Science p...