From the shocking mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to the spread of false news online, many of this year’s most important issues feature in the Altmetric Top 100, released today.
The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights research published in 2018 that has generated significant international online attention and discussion – from post-publication peer review sites and public policy documents to mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media platforms. Top 10 articles of 2018:
Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (New England Journal of Medicine, July 2018)
The spread of true and false news online (Science, March 2018)
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (The Lancet, September 2018)
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (PNAS, August 2018)
Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study (The Lancet Psychiatry, September 2018)
Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis (The Lancet Public Health, September 2018)
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic (Scientific Reports, March 2018)
Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers (JAMA Oncology, October 2018)
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (Nature, April 2018)
The biomass distribution on Earth (PNAS, May 2018)
The Altmetric Top 100 typically features research from a variety of disciplines, written by authors from all corners of the globe. Source: Altmetric
The paper is the most widely shared in the Altmetric Top 100’s six-year history.
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This year’s list features papers published in 45 different journals. The University of Cambridge had the most affiliated papers (10 papers), while the journal Science featured more than any other (12 times).
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Data was collated on the 15 November 2018, for articles published from November 15 2017 onwards. Author and institutional data was collated via a mixture of automatic matching with data from Dimensions and manual curation. Altmetric Attention Scores shown on the Top 100 site were captured at the time of collation, and may have changed slightly since.
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From the shocking mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to the spread of false news online, many of this year’s most important issues feature in the Altmetric Top 100, released today.
