Objective:

Altmetrics are claimed to measure the scientific, societal, educational, technological and economic impacts of science. They have some of these dimensions in common with university ranking and evaluating systems. Their results are, therefore, expected to be partially convergent with the systems’. Given the importance of the scientific and non-scientific impacts of science, this study investigated the correlations of universities’ altmetrics with their total and dimensional scores in Nature Index, Leiden, Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Methodology:

Following a correlational design, it explored an available sample of the universities commonly ranked in the systems in 2017. The data were collected from online documents using checklists and analysed by the Spearman correlation. As Altmetric Attention Score (ASS) is efficient in that it integrates several indicators into a single one, it was used as the proxy of the universities’ social performance.

Findings:

The universities showed significant positive correlations between their ASSs and their performance scores on the total and dimensional levels, except for industry income in THE, with an insignificant correlation, and proportion of collaborative publication less than 100 km. in Leiden, with an inverse correlation. The correlations ranged from weak to marginally strong.

Conclusion:

The positive relationships between the universities’ performance and ASSs signified that there existed some similarities in what they measured. However, they were of weak-to-marginally strong powers, implying that the metrics differed in what they measured. The findings contribute to the existing knowledge by providing some evidence of convergence between university-level altmetrics and university performances in various dimensions.

中文翻译：

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大学的 Altmetric 注意力得分与其在 Nature Index、Leiden、Times Higher Education 和 Quacquarelli Symonds 排名系统中的表现得分之间的相关性

客观的：

Altmetrics 声称可以衡量科学对科学、社会、教育、技术和经济的影响。它们与大学排名和评估系统有一些共同点。因此，预计他们的结果将与系统部分收敛。鉴于科学的科学和非科学影响的重要性，本研究调查了大学的替代指标与其在自然指数、莱顿、泰晤士报高等教育 (THE) 和 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 中的总分和维度得分的相关性。

方法：

根据相关性设计，它探索了 2017 年系统中常见大学排名的可用样本。数据是使用清单从在线文档中收集的，并通过 Spearman 相关性进行分析。由于Altmetric 注意力得分(ASS) 的效率在于它将多个指标整合为一个指标，因此它被用作大学社会绩效的代理。

发现：

各大学的ASSs与总体和维度水平上的表现得分均呈显着正相关，除THE行业收入外，相关性不显着，合作出版比例小于100公里。在莱顿，呈负相关。相关性从弱到略强。

结论：

大学表现与 ASS 之间的正相关关系表明，它们的测量结果存在一些相似之处。然而，他们的权力从弱到微强，这意味着这些指标在他们测量的内容上有所不同。研究结果通过提供一些证据证明大学水平的替代指标与大学在各个维度上的表现之间存在收敛性，从而为现有知识做出了贡献。