Given the increasing importance of recognition in academia and the vital role of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in medical research and clinical decisions, this study verifies how RCTs’ academic and societal impacts are affected by visibility factors, subjects and methodological validity. This study concentrated on a sample of 446 RCTs indexed in Scopus and evaluated by Cochrane reviewers in terms of their methodological validity. The altmetrics, bibliometric and bibliographical information were extracted from Altmetric.com and Scopus, and the contributing countries’ development ranks were obtained from the United Nations Development report. The linear regression analyses revealed that citations and altmetrics depend on some subjects. They are also affected by publication year and journals’ previous reputation. Citations are also affected by keyword counts and reference counts. Keyword counts and contributing countries’ developmental rank also predict the tweet counts. While none of the methodological validity dimensions were found to predict citations, ‘Incomplete Outcome Data’ and ‘Random Sequence Generation’ significantly, though slightly, affect Mendeley Readership and tweets, respectively. By confirming the dependence of RCTs’ recognition on some methodological validity features and attention-inducing characteristics, the study provides further evidence on the interaction of quality and visibility dynamisms in the recognition network and the complementary role of societal mentions for academic citation.

鉴于学术界认可的重要性日益增加以及随机对照试验 (RCT) 在医学研究和临床决策中的重要作用，本研究验证了 RCT 的学术和社会影响如何受到可见性因素、受试者和方法学有效性的影响。本研究集中在 Scopus 索引的 446 项 RCT 样本上，并由 Cochrane 评审员根据其方法学有效性进行评估。altmetrics、文献计量学和书目信息摘自Altmetric.com和Scopus，贡献国家的发展排名来自联合国发展报告。线性回归分析表明，引文和替代指标取决于某些主题。它们还受到出版年份和期刊先前声誉的影响。引用次数也受关键字计数和引用计数的影响。关键词数量和贡献国家的发展排名也预测了推文数量。虽然没有发现任何方法学有效性维度可以预测引用，但“不完整的结果数据”和“随机序列生成”分别显着影响 Mendeley 读者群和推文，尽管影响不大。通过确认 RCT 的识别依赖于一些方法学有效性特征和引起注意的特征，该研究为识别网络中质量和可见性动态的相互作用以及学术引用的社会提及的补充作用提供了进一步的证据。虽然没有发现任何方法学有效性维度可以预测引用，但“不完整的结果数据”和“随机序列生成”分别显着影响 Mendeley 读者群和推文，尽管影响不大。通过确认 RCT 的识别依赖于一些方法学有效性特征和引起注意的特征，该研究为识别网络中质量和可见性动态的相互作用以及学术引用的社会提及的补充作用提供了进一步的证据。虽然没有发现任何方法学有效性维度可以预测引用，但“不完整的结果数据”和“随机序列生成”分别显着影响 Mendeley 读者群和推文，尽管影响不大。通过确认 RCT 的识别依赖于一些方法学有效性特征和引起注意的特征，该研究为识别网络中质量和可见性动态的相互作用以及学术引用的社会提及的补充作用提供了进一步的证据。