Citations v/s Altmetric Attention Score: A Comparison of Top 10 Highly Cited Papers in Nature

This study aims to analyze the correlation between citations and altmetric scores of the top 10 highly cited papers in Nature by extracting the data from Google metrics. It tries to investigate whether a highly cited paper has a high altmetric score or not by using the correlation method and the result shows that there exists a high correlation. The study found that Mendeley is the main medium through which scientific papers are being disseminated more and contributing to the altmetric score intensely. The country-wise tweeting data show that U.S. and U.K. hold the first and second positions in tweeting with 1143 &14 tweets respectively. As the altmetric values online attention, it prompts the entire research community to opt for social media for publication for getting good attention and there by promoting open access. Even though, altmetrics is not at all a replacement for traditional metrics but acts as a supplement to i