Table 1.
Characteristics and components of the top 100 COVID-19 articles with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores.
| Characteristic | Value | |
| Altmetric Attention Score, median (range) | 4922.50 (2841-33828) | |
| PlumX score, median (range)a | 37.92 (0-1862.23) | |
| Journal impact factor, median (range) | 41.06 (1.29-70.67) | |
| Traditional citation count, median (range)b | 24.00 (0-1096) | |
| Number of news mentions, total (range) | 32509 (1-2021) | |
| Number of blog mentions, total (range) | 2630 (0-131) | |
| Number of policy mentions, total (range) | 154 (0-21) | |
| Number of Twitter mentions, total (range) | 985429 (1381-84022) | |
| Number of Facebook mentions, total (range) | 1138 (0-58) | |
| Number of Wikipedia mentions, total (range) | 177 (0-11) | |
| Number of Reddit mentions, total (range) | 938 (0-40) | |
| Number of Mendeley Readers, total (range) | 9283 (0-2581) | |
| Number of Dimensions citations, total (range) | 18011 (0-2233) | |
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Original investigation | 44 (44) |
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Correspondence | 31 (31) |
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Editorial | 14 (14) |
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Review | 4 (4) |
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Viewpoint | 6 (6) |
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Open access | 100 (100) |
| Study design of original investigations (n=44) , n (%) | ||
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Clinical trials | 4 (9) |
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Prospective/retrospective cohort studies | 21 (48) |
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Cross sectional | 1 (2) |
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Case series | 7 (16) |
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Basic science in vitro/in vivo studies | 8 (18) |
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Model validation studies | 3 (7) |
aIn total, 16 articles had a PlumX score of 0, because they did not have a score on Scopus at the time of this study. Therefore, these articles were not part of the analysis.
bIn total, 3 articles did not have a citation count on Scopus or PubMed Central at the time of this study. Therefore, these articles were not part of the analysis.