A produção científica sobre altmetria em periódicos da área de Ciência da Informação: um estudo de redes sociais de coautoria e correlação entre citações-menções

Abstract

The evaluation of scientific productions allows to analyse discussions in science, advances, impacts and visibility. Altmetrics analyzes visibility and engagement on the social web, and Social Network Analysis represents interactions between researchers investigating a given topic or domain. Thus, the study analyzes the correlation between citations-mentions and co-authorship networks of the theme altmetrics in online social networks in national journals of Information Science. It is characterized as research of a basic nature with a quantitative and qualitative approach; descriptive as to the objectives; bibliography and survey. The corpus was composed of articles published between 2010-2022 in national scientific journals in the area of Information Science with Qualis CAPES (2017-2020), strata A1 and A2, namely: “Transinformação”, “Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação”, “Informação & Sociedade: estudos”, “Informação & Informação”, “Encontros Bibli” and “Em Questão”. As a result, 30 articles were obtained, mostly between 2019 and 2021, with emphasis on “Em Questão” and “Encontros Bibli”. The tag cloud revealed 71 terms, the most cited being: “altmetrics”, “bibliometrics”, “alternative metrics”, “online attention”, “altmetric indicators”, “scientific dissemination”, “visibility” and “public engagement”. As for the number of mentions in online social networks, there was a predominance of Twitter (93%), compared to Facebook (7%), with the majority being made by profiles of researchers and students. Regarding the calculation of Pearson's linear correlation coefficient, the result indicated positive and weak correlation. In the co-authorship network, 44 nodes/actors were identified, grouped into nine sub-networks, five dyads, one triad, one network with four actors and one with five, in addition to a cluster composed of 20 actors. ARAÚJO, R. F. and CAREGNATO, S. E. showed a degree of centrality in the co-authorship network. As for the actor-institution network, links were revealed with institutions in all regions of Brazil, except the North, with the Southeast standing out, in addition to including international institutions such as Simon Fraser University and Universidad de Antioquia. It is concluded that collaboration and institutional links reiterate the richness of the links built, especially when observing the exchange of knowledge and the joint construction of new knowledge. Finally, actions are suggested to increase the visibility of the production published by journals, such as creating profiles on online social networks and encouraging researchers, students and professionals to disseminate the knowledge produced in their areas, in the networks in which they are inserted.