Table 3.

Summary of the association between variables of the publishing journal and the publishing articles with Altmetric scores

Studies and analyses	Citation counts	Journal impact factor	Access counts	Open access	Time since publication	Press release
Correlation analysis
Amath et al. [15]	r = 0.25		r = 0.30
Assad et al. [17]	r = 0.33
Ayoub et al. [26]	r = 0.62
Barakat et al. [18]	r = 0.33
Barbic et al. [19]	r = 0.22	r = 0.35
Costas et al. [22]	r = 0.18	r = 0.19
Dagar et al. [23]	r = 0.43
Knight [27]	r = 0.16* and r = 0.23**
Kunze et al. [29]	r = 0.36
Richardson et al. [28]	r = 0.32
Richardson et al. [31]	r = 0.12
Rosenkrantz et al. [32]	r = 0.20
Linear regression analysis
Chen et al. [21]	R2 = 0.00
Multivariate regression analysis
Araujo et al. [11]	β = 5.2* and β = 10.1**	β = 3.4			β = −4.9
Araujo et al. [16]	β = 2.9* and β = 6.37**	β = 15.36* and β = −3.21**		β = 0.74* and β = 4.04**	β = −21.99* and β = 18.13**
Haneef et al. [24]		RoM = 1.10		RoM = 1.48		RoM = 10.14
Boosted regression trees analysis
Lamb et al. [30] Altmetric scores were strongly associated with citation counts.
Principal component analysis and factor analysis
Bornmann et al. [20] Altmetric reader score are associated to citation counts.
Didegah et al. [25] Altmetric reader score are associated to citation counts.

*These numbers represent Altmetric mentioned. **These numbers represent Altmetric reader. r = correlation estimates. RoM = regression coefficients represent the logarithm of ratio of mean. β = β coefficient