The Role of Social Media in Sports Vision

Henrique Nascimento, Clara Martinez-Perez, Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina and Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena
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Henrique Nascimento: ISEC LISBOA—Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal
Clara Martinez-Perez: ISEC LISBOA—Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal
Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina: School of Biomedical and Health Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain
Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena: ISEC LISBOA—Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 10, 1-9

Abstract: Background: Sports vision is a relatively new specialty. The objective is to provide ophthalmological and optometric care services for the care of vision in the sports field. An increasing number of athletes and coaches are trying to improve visual skills and they seek information on social media. The current excess of information has made it increasingly difficult to identify high quality articles. For this reason, alternative metrics are useful tools to identify publications that draw attention to society. This research aims to study the influence of social networks on the importance of vision in sport. Methods: Altmetric Explorer was used to perform a search using “sport”, “vision” and “eye” as keywords. The 100 outcomes with the most attention were analyzed and correlated with the number of citations in the Web of Science (WoS) using the Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: The 100 best Altmetric Attention Scores (AASs) were published in 67 journals and had a mean AAS value of 30.22 ± 62.37 The results were discussed mainly on Twitter, with a mean of 113.99 ± 43.86 tweets and retweets and a mean of 75.92 ± 79.92 readers in Mendeley. There was no correlation between AAS and WoS Cites for the top 100 outcomes and the correlation was low if we considered the total research results rather than the top 100. Conclusions: The citations are not related to the impact of scientific articles on social networks. Sports vision is a specialty with a growing interest in social media.

Keywords: sport vision; social media; social network analysis; Altmetric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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