The Most Mentioned Glaucoma Articles in Online Media: An Analysis of the Top 100 Articles with the Highest Altmetric Attention Scores

Abstract

Purpose : To determine the 100 most mentioned articles on social media in the field of glaucoma and analyze their characteristics.

Methods : Using the Altmetric.com search tool, we identified the top 100 glaucoma articles with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS), an automatically calculated metric for monitoring social media. Each article was evaluated for several characteristics including year of publication, title, journal name, journal impact factor (IF), article topic, article type, affiliation, and online mentions (news, blog, policy, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Correlation analysis was conducted for AAS with these characteristics.

Results : The AAS for the top 100 most mentioned glaucoma articles ranged from 42 to 1009 and these articles were published between 2012 and 2019. The selected 100 articles came from 44 journals with more than half (56%) published in ophthalmology-specific journals. There was no significant correlation between IF and number of articles in a specific journal or AAS (p>0.1) [Table 1]. Original study was the most common study type, (87%) of which clinical observation study was the most common subgroup (40%) [Table 2A]. Epidemiology/risk factor and basic science were the most common article topics (each 24%), followed by medical treatment (13%). Article topics regarding medical treatment had a significantly greater AAS than other topics (p<0.05) [Table 2B].

Conclusions : The present study assesses the 100 most mentioned glaucoma articles and provides a better understanding of the dissemination of glaucoma research to the general public.

This is a 2020 ARVO Annual Meeting abstract.