خلاصة:
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between traditional citation indexes representing hot papers in the field of “Clinical Medicine” and their bookmarking and readership in “Mendeley software”. The citation counts of hot papers were extracted from Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and Web of Science (WoS). As an applied research adopting a descriptive-exploratory method, the present study used the Essential Science Indicators to retrieve hot articles published between 2014 and 2016, indexed in the category “Medical Sciences”. Each record was then searched in Mendeley to obtain the number of readership of the paper and the academic status of the users. The results showed a significant positive correlation between Mendeley readership and citation indexes in both ESI and WoS. Moreover, the most frequently-cited articles in both databases attracted more readers in Mendeley than lowly-cited publications and both hypotheses were confirmed. Moreover, the findings revealed that Mendeley users had assigned a total number of 3847 tags to the hot papers, with the tags ranging in frequency from zero to 38 for individual articles. Compared with author keywords and Plus, about 10 percent of users’ tags were either meaningless or repetitive. The value of present study shows that “Mendeley Sofware” with the possibility of tagging articles, can be used to create a searchable folksonomy of information and as a source of data in information retrieval studies, help professionals to manage their literatures and make their research life easier.
ملخص الجهاز:
Keywords: Alternative Metrics, Altmetrics, Mendeley, Hot Papers, Citation, Essential Science Endicators (ESI), Web of Science (WOS), Readership, Bookmarking.
Bar-llan (2012) studied journal articles, particularly articles published in JASIST, over the period 2001-2010 and found a significant correlation between article citation counts in WoS, Scopus, and Google Scholar and their bookmarking in Mendeley.
Could they help to identify alternative types of impact?’ Zahedi, Costas and Wouters (2013) reported a weak positive correlation between citation counts and anicle storage in Mendeley, which they announced consistent with the previous findings.
In their study entitled ‘Mendeley readership Altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: research evaluation and knowledge flows’, Mohammadi and Thelwall (2014) observed a moderate correlation between Mendeley readership counts and article citation counts.
The highest correlations between citations and Mendeley readership counts were found for the users who often authored academic articles, except for associate professors in some sub-disciplines.
Table 4 Number of Hot papers frequenc y disk ribution based on publicanion year {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} The results of the first hypothesis of this research demonstrated that statistically there is a positive significant relationship between citations and Mendeley readership counts' and the hypothesis is confirmed.
Reader frequency by academic credentials in both highly- and lowly-cited articles in WoS With regard to the third research question, the results showed that Mendeley users had assigned a total of 3847 tags to the hot papers.