Table 1.
Characteristics and components of the Top 100 COVID-19–related articles by Altmetric scorea.
| Characteristics | Valuesb | |
| Altmetric score, median (range) | 4922.50 (2841-33,828) | |
| Traditional citation, median (range)c | 24.00 (0-1096) | |
| News mentions, n (range) | 32,509 (1-2021) | |
| Blog mentions, n (range) | 2630 (0-131) | |
| Policy mentions, n (range) | 154 (0-21) | |
| Twitter mentions, n (range) | 985,429 (1381-84,022) | |
| Facebook mentions, n (range) | 1138 (0-58) | |
| Wikipedia mentions, n (range) | 177 (0-11) | |
| Reddit mentions, n (range) | 938 (0-40) | |
| Mendeley readers, n (range) | 9283 (0-2581) | |
| Dimension citations, n (range) | 18,011 (0-2233) | |
| Article types, n (%) | ||
| Original investigation | 44 (44) | |
| Correspondence | 31 (31) | |
| Editorial | 14 (14) | |
| Review | 4 (4) | |
| Viewpoint | 6 (6) | |
| Open access | 100 (100) | |
| Study design of original investigations (n=44), n (%) | ||
| Clinical trials | 4 (9) | |
| Prospective or retrospective cohort studies | 21 (48) | |
| Cross-sectional | 1 (2) | |
| Case series | 7 (16) | |
| Basic science in vitro or in vivo studies | 8 (18) | |
| Model validation studies | 3 (7) | |
aA total of 16 articles had a Field-Weighted Citation Impact of 0 because they did not have a score yet on Scopus at the time of the study and were not part of the analysis.
bTotal sum of all mentions for each article included in the study.
cThree articles did not have a citation count on Scopus or PubMed Central at the time of the study and were not part of the analysis.