Altmetric Attention Scores and Citations of Published Research With or Without Preprints

Seth Zissette; Anant Gautam; Harlan M Krumholz; Joseph S Ross; Joshua D Wallach

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.24732

Altmetric Attention Scores and Citations of Published Research With or Without Preprints

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2424732. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.24732.

Authors

Seth Zissette¹, Anant Gautam², Harlan M Krumholz³, Joseph S Ross⁴, Joshua D Wallach¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² South Forsyth High School, Cumming, Georgia.
³ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study assesses how frequently research articles published in the clinical journals with high impact factors are preprinted and whether preprinting is associated with changes in media attention and citation counts.

MeSH terms

Bibliometrics*
Biomedical Research / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Periodicals as Topic / statistics & numerical data
Preprints as Topic / statistics & numerical data
Publishing / statistics & numerical data