1Research Scholar, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka, India
(*Corresponding author) email id: *hrajendra.babu@gmail.com
The purpose of the study is to explore the differences in altmetric benefits among OA and NOA access articles by taking the top 10 articles in the Business and Commerce domain from Nature journal. Furthermore, this paper investigates the correlation between article access and altmetric attention score. The result reported that higher article access led to higher article attention scores (r (9) = .965). Twitter was the main source of altmetrics for all the articles and the U.S public were the major tweeter. There was no significant variation between OA and NOA articles in gaining social media attention (p-value = 0.520). The result of the study gives a better idea for the scholarly community to choose their preferred channel and mode for diffusing their scientific output for maximum academic and social benefit. The study is the first of its kind to explore the altmetric benefits of OA and NOA articles especially in the domain of business and commerce.
Altmetric attention score, Altmetrics, Non-open access (NOA), Open access (OA), Tweets
