Social Media Impact of Myopia Research

Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, Cesar Villa-Collar, Clara Martinez-Perez, María Ibeth Peñaloza Barbosa and Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena
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Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina: Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain
Cesar Villa-Collar: Faculty of Biomedical and Health Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain
Clara Martinez-Perez: ISEC LISBOA—Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal
María Ibeth Peñaloza Barbosa: Faculty of Biomedical and Health Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain
Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena: Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-11

Abstract: Background: Myopia has become a public health issue worldwide. The fast increase in myopia prevalence in the last years has been accompanied by an increase in information through social and conventional media. This has led to the fight not only against a pandemic but also against the infodemic. The excess of information has made it increasingly difficult for health professionals to identify high-quality articles. Alternative Metrics are useful tools to identify publications that provoke attention to society. This research aims to study the impact that research on myopia has had on social media. Methods: Almetric Explorer was used to make a search using “myopia” as a keyword. The 100 outputs with the highest attention were analyzed and correlated with the number of cites on Web of Science using Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results: The top 100 Altmetric Attention Score were published in 47 journals and had a mean value of Altmetric Attention Score of 437.61 ± 718.33. The outputs were mostly discussed on Twitter, with a mean of 296.36 ± 1585.58 tweets and retweets, and a mean of 185.18 ± 211.57 readers in Mendeley. There was a low correlation between Altmetric Attention Score and Web of Science Cites for the top-100 outputs. Conclusions: although myopia is a research topic with a high interest in society, most cited articles are not those with the most impact on social media. Myopia researchers should make more effort in promoting their goals, and social media is a useful tool to share them.

Keywords: myopia; bibliometrics; altmetrics social media; research impact; infodemics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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