Data collection and analysis code for: Second-order Citations in Altmetrics

Juan Pablo Alperin

Last updated: March 31, 2023

This repository houses the data and code used to analyze the second order effects of a sample of COVID-19 related articles. The accompanying publication can be found here:

Related Publication

Alperin, J.P., Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M. & Haustein, S. (2023). Second-order Citations in Altmetrics: A Case Study Analyzing the Audiences of COVID-19 Research in the News and on Social Media. bioarxiv.

Data files

See the following dataset for data and details. The files in this repository should be placed inside a data/ folder.

Alperin, J.P. (2023). Data on first- and second-Order citations for sample of COVID-19 research. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OEKB01