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<p>Possible analogy between traditional scientometrics and altmetrics/scientometrics 2.0 is intriguing. So far, a few evidences are available in regard to the parallelism. More evidence to parallelism might highlight the importance of altmetrics in STI policy/governance, even though its usability as early scholarly impact or societal impact indicator is still debated. This is because altmetrics reflects attention/visibility of research and ensuring early visibility/attention can be crucial for nations and institutions for improving chances for leveraging the transformation potential of their research output, especially the internal research output. For this, the level of dependency of nations and institutions on foreign collaborators for productivity, impact and attention needs to be determined. Recently introduced boost indicators are capable of reflecting the boost in productivity, impact and attention due to foreign collaborations and thereby reflect the level of dependency too. Once level of dependency is known and if boost in attention/altmetrics exhibits parallelism with boost in impact/citations, suitable strategies for enhancing internal scholarly ecosystem of a country can be formulated. In this work, we explore the relationship between indicators related to collaborative boost with respect to citations and altmetrics for (i) 193 UN member countries and (ii) top productive institutions from 4 selected countries (belonging to four categories). At the country-level, a strong positive correlation is found between boost in altmetrics and citations, reinforcing the conjecture about parallelism. At the institutional level, the strength of correlation is found to vary according to the category in which the institution’s country belongs. This highlights the importance of improving necessity of strengthening the scholarly ecosystem of the countries, especially by enhancing institutions’ impact and attention while reducing their dependency on international collaboration. Potential strategies to be adopted by countries belonging to different categories for framing STI Policies and aiding STI governance in this regard are also recommended.</p>

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Parallelism between citations and altmetrics: evidence and insights from collaborative boost indicators for science policy/governance

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    2026年2月17日

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  • Hiran H. Lathabai,
  • A. S. Anandhukrishna,
  • Prema Nedungadi,
  • Rakhi Mohan,
  • Raghu Raman

摘要

Possible analogy between traditional scientometrics and altmetrics/scientometrics 2.0 is intriguing. So far, a few evidences are available in regard to the parallelism. More evidence to parallelism might highlight the importance of altmetrics in STI policy/governance, even though its usability as early scholarly impact or societal impact indicator is still debated. This is because altmetrics reflects attention/visibility of research and ensuring early visibility/attention can be crucial for nations and institutions for improving chances for leveraging the transformation potential of their research output, especially the internal research output. For this, the level of dependency of nations and institutions on foreign collaborators for productivity, impact and attention needs to be determined. Recently introduced boost indicators are capable of reflecting the boost in productivity, impact and attention due to foreign collaborations and thereby reflect the level of dependency too. Once level of dependency is known and if boost in attention/altmetrics exhibits parallelism with boost in impact/citations, suitable strategies for enhancing internal scholarly ecosystem of a country can be formulated. In this work, we explore the relationship between indicators related to collaborative boost with respect to citations and altmetrics for (i) 193 UN member countries and (ii) top productive institutions from 4 selected countries (belonging to four categories). At the country-level, a strong positive correlation is found between boost in altmetrics and citations, reinforcing the conjecture about parallelism. At the institutional level, the strength of correlation is found to vary according to the category in which the institution’s country belongs. This highlights the importance of improving necessity of strengthening the scholarly ecosystem of the countries, especially by enhancing institutions’ impact and attention while reducing their dependency on international collaboration. Potential strategies to be adopted by countries belonging to different categories for framing STI Policies and aiding STI governance in this regard are also recommended.