Altmetrics at institutional level: Visibility on the web of the scientific production of Spanish universities from Altmetric.com

Resumen

Este estudio se centra en las publicaciones de las universidades españolas en la Web of Science (WoS) durante 2014-2016 (125.824 artículos) y calcula 17 indicadores con Altmetric.com. Se han establecido tres objetivos: 1) ofrecer una perspectiva general de las altmétricas en las universidades españolas, 2) determinar la cobertura de Altmetric.com en el caso español y 3) establecer cuáles son las altmétricas más relevantes. Los resultados evidencian que el 42% de los artículos en la WoS están indexados en Altmetric.com. Los indicadores generados por Twitter, prensa digital, Facebook y Wikipedia explican el 82% de la varianza. Como conclusiones se señalan que: a) publicar en revistas de alto impacto y en áreas como Medicina y Biología contribuye a que las universidades obtengan mejores altmétricas; y b) un reducido número de indicadores es suficiente para determinar el impacto altmétrico.  

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