| Abstract: |
For the past years, preprints started to be very common in Economics and
Business Studies and economic researchers simply referred to them as working
papers (Cruz & Krichel, 2000). Since a previous study of Nuredini & Peters
(2016) confirms a relatively good coverage of journal articles for Economic
and Business Studies literature in Altmetric.com, this study explores the
altmetric representations for working papers in these fields. We present
altmetric information from Altmetric.com for working papers from Econstor.
Considering that working papers in Economics and Business Studies from
Econstor often have handles for their identification, our study explored
handles and confirmed a lower coverage in Altmetric.com (0.2%). Therefore we
investigated altmetric information for two other working papers identifiers:
DOIs, and URLs. Better coverage is identified for working papers with DOIs
(7%). Econstor URLs are less found in Altmetric.com with coverage of 0.04%.
The topmost used altmetric source for working papers in Economic and Business
Studies is Twitter for handles and DOIs and for URLs is Policy Posts. Mendeley
counts are well present for working papers with DOIs but not for handles. A
negative correlation (r = - 0.0157) is identified between citation counts from
Crossref and Altmetric Scores. Additionally, we noticed several issues that
are happening while sharing Econstor working papers on social media that
prevent from collecting altmetric information. Thus, we suggest an alternative
way to share these papers on social media to prevent losing altmetric
information. |