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Korean J Orthod
First Published Date August 30, 2023
Copyright © The Korean Association of Orthodontists.
1. Thamer Alsaif a
2. Nikolaos Pandis b
3. Martyn T. Cobourne a,c
4. Jadbinder Seehraa,c*
a Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. King’s College London, Floor 21, Guy’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
b Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Dental School/Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
c* Centre for Craniofacial Development & Regeneration, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, Floor 27, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
Correspondence to:Dr Jadbinder Seehra
Centre for Craniofacial Development & Regeneration Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences King’s College London Floor 25 Guy’s Hospital Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London SE1 9RT United Kingdom
Email: jadbinderpal.seehra@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone number: 02071885665
Objective: The aim of this investigation was to determine if there was any association between study quality and other study characteristics with Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) of orthodontic studies.
Methods: The Scopus database was searched to identify orthodontic studies published between 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019. Articles satisfying the eligibility criteria were included. Study characteristics including study quality were extracted and entered into a prepiloted data collection sheet. Descriptive statistics were calculated. On an exploratory basis random forest and gradient boosting machine learning algorithms were used to examine influence of article characteristics on the AAS.
Results: A total of 586 studies with AAS were analysed. Overall, the mean AAS score for the sample was 5. The most popular social media platform for studies with an AAS to gain attention was Twitter (53.7%). In terms of study quality, only 19.1% studies with an AAS were rated to have a high level of quality with 41.8% studies deemed to be of moderate quality. The type of social media platform, number of citations, impact factor and study type are among the most influential characteristics on AAS in both models. In contrast, study quality is one of the lowest influential characteristics on AAS.
Conclusions: Social media platforms had the greatest contribution to Altmetric Attention Scores of orthodontic studies. Study quality has little impact on AAS of orthodontic studies.
Keywords: AAS, social media
Korean J Orthod
First Published Date August 30, 2023
Copyright © The Korean Association of Orthodontists.
1. Thamer Alsaif a
2. Nikolaos Pandis b
3. Martyn T. Cobourne a,c
4. Jadbinder Seehraa,c*
a Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. King’s College London, Floor 21, Guy’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
b Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Dental School/Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
c* Centre for Craniofacial Development & Regeneration, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, Floor 27, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
Correspondence to:Dr Jadbinder Seehra
Centre for Craniofacial Development & Regeneration Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences King’s College London Floor 25 Guy’s Hospital Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London SE1 9RT United Kingdom
Email: jadbinderpal.seehra@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone number: 02071885665
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: The aim of this investigation was to determine if there was any association between study quality and other study characteristics with Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) of orthodontic studies.
Methods: The Scopus database was searched to identify orthodontic studies published between 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019. Articles satisfying the eligibility criteria were included. Study characteristics including study quality were extracted and entered into a prepiloted data collection sheet. Descriptive statistics were calculated. On an exploratory basis random forest and gradient boosting machine learning algorithms were used to examine influence of article characteristics on the AAS.
Results: A total of 586 studies with AAS were analysed. Overall, the mean AAS score for the sample was 5. The most popular social media platform for studies with an AAS to gain attention was Twitter (53.7%). In terms of study quality, only 19.1% studies with an AAS were rated to have a high level of quality with 41.8% studies deemed to be of moderate quality. The type of social media platform, number of citations, impact factor and study type are among the most influential characteristics on AAS in both models. In contrast, study quality is one of the lowest influential characteristics on AAS.
Conclusions: Social media platforms had the greatest contribution to Altmetric Attention Scores of orthodontic studies. Study quality has little impact on AAS of orthodontic studies.
Keywords: AAS, social media
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