. 2021 Oct 15;132(7):1364–1373. doi: 10.1002/lary.29902

TABLE V.

Multivariate Regression of Article Characteristics on Citation and Attention Metrics.

Variable Coefficient ± Standard Error	Citations/Paper	Citations/Paper Within 120 d	Social Media Posts	Altmetric Attention Score at 3 mo
Publication period
Pre‐COVID	ref.	ref.	ref.	ref.
Non‐COVID	−0.64 ± 0.36 ^***	0.03 ± 0.01 ^**	−0.10 ± 0.48	0.67 ± 0.28 ^*
COVID	7.25 ± 1.27 ^***	2.75 ± 0.45 ^***	18.32 ± 8.28 ^*	2.05 ± 0.60 ^**
Publication type
Observation/cohort/other studies	ref.	ref.	ref.	ref.
Meta‐analysis/reviews	1.00 ± 0.41 ^*	0.25 ± 0.17	0.24 ± 0.82	1.57 ± 1.33
Randomized control trials	0.25 ± 0.13	0.00 ± 0.03	1.34 ± 0.65 ^*	−0.17 ± 0.10
Case studies	−0.54 ± 0.13 ^***	−0.12 ± 0.05 ^*	12.10 ± 13.79	0.06 ± 0.28
Miscellaneous	0.62 ± 0.13 ^***	−0.26 ± 0.14	−5.28 ± 1.76 ^**	−0.80 ± 0.21 ^***
Top 5 countries by most COVID articles
United States	ref.	ref.	ref.	ref.
Canada	0.67 ± 0.70	0.25 ± 0.24	2.35 ± 2.13	0.11 ± 0.73
France	3.95 ± 3.21	1.37 ± 1.11	2.29 ± 2.66	−0.08 ± 0.25
India	−0.38 ± 0.22	−0.13 ± 0.08	−1.03 ± 0.56	−0.01 ± 0.19
Italy	1.47 ± 0.74 ^*	0.42 ± 0.24	−0.26 ± 2.21	−0.14 ± 0.25
Others	0.13 ± 0.16	0.04 ± 0.06	0.25 ± 0.89	0.12 ± 0.19
Journal
Acta Otolaryngol	−0.26 ± 0.19	−0.01 ± 0.06	−1.36 ± 0.47 ^**	−0.33 ± 0.16 ^*
Am J Rhinol Allergy	−0.38 ± 0.23	−0.05 ± 0.08	0.22 ± 0.56	−0.40 ± 0.18 ^*
Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol	−0.44 ± 0.19 ^*	−0.09 ± 0.06	−1.61 ± 0.71 ^*	−0.41 ± 0.19 ^*
Auris Nasus Larynx	−0.39 ± 0.23	−0.08 ± 0.08	−2.31 ± 1.16 ^*	−0.51 ± 0.18 ^**
Clin Otolaryngol	−0.20 ± 0.26	−0.03 ± 0.09	1.68 ± 0.77 ^*	0.13 ± 0.20
Ear Hear	0.45 ± 0.18 ^*	0.26 ± 0.07 ^***	1.18 ± 0.72	−0.22 ± 0.20
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol	0.15 ± 0.51	0.08 ± 0.17	−1.17 ± 0.43 ^**	0.19 ± 0.24
Head Neck	0.54 ± 0.30	0.17 ± 0.10	0.11 ± 0.51	−0.42 ± 0.21 ^*
Int Forum Allergy Rhinol	1.99 ± 0.82 ^*	0.63 ± 0.28 ^*	5.31 ± 1.81 ^**	3.64 ± 2.57
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol	−0.37 ± 0.17 ^*	−0.05 ± 0.06	−1.56 ± 0.47 ^**	−0.47 ± 0.18 ^**
J Laryngol Otol	−1.13 ± 0.26 ^***	−0.31 ± 0.09 ^***	−3.09 ± 1.26 ^*	−0.28 ± 0.25
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg	0.68 ± 0.53	0.34 ± 0.26	32.94 ± 9.75 ^**	1.27 ± 0.38 ^**
Laryngoscope ^†	ref.	ref.	ref.	ref.
Otol Neurotol	0.26 ± 0.21	0.05 ± 0.07	0.17 ± 0.46	−0.09 ± 0.27
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg	−0.10 ± 0.31	−0.05 ± 0.10	−1.71 ± 0.78 ^*	−0.55 ± 0.26 ^*

All significant values are bolded for clarity.

^{^*}

P < .05.

^{^**}

P < .01.

^{^***}

P < .001.

^{^†}

Laryngoscope was chosen as the reference group because this journal had the most publications overall in our dataset (n = 1,486).