Investigating the Presence of Articles in Iranian Journals Indexed by Scopus via Social Media during 2010-2018

The present study has investigated the presence of articles in Iranian Journals indexed by Scopus via social media during 2010-2018. In this study, the articles with the highest altmetric scores were identified.

This is a descriptive study and has used altmetric indicators for evaluating the articles of Iranian Journals. Altmetrics databases such as altmetric Explorer and Scopus were used in this respect. Data analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS software.

The results showed that out of the total articles of the research community, 1595 articles have altmetric coverage equal to 2.1% which are mostly in the field of medicine. Mendeley's social network (95.8%), Twitter (80.1%), Citations Dimensions (70%) and Facebook (13.9%) were the most important social media used.

The present study showed that the articles published in Iranian journals indexed by Scopus in the field of medicine had relatively good altimetric coverage and were more widely shared on social media and received more attention from users of these media.