Bibliometric analysis of alternative performance metrics for peri‐operative, critical care and pain medicine journals

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis of alternative performance metrics for peri-operative, critical care and pain medicine journals Traditional medical publication metrics, such as impact factor, have various well described limitations [1, 2].Modern, alternative metrics, such as the Altmetric attention score (https://www.altmetric.com),provide scores for each publication using an automated algorithm representing a weighted count of the amount of attention for a research Figure 1 Ranking of 18 journals in the fields of peri-operative, critical care and pain medicine journals according to their (a) impact factor and (b) Altmetric impact factor.

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