The Correlation between Altmetric Attention Score and Traditional Bibliometrics in Top Nursing Journal Articles

Table 4

The correlations between citation and AAS, CNCI and AAS, RCR, and AAS based on journals.

Journal	Citation and AAS		CNCI and AAS		RCR and AAS
	Rho	value	Rho	value	Rho	value
Asian Nursing Research	0.284	0.002	0.240	0.011	0.234	0.014
Australian Critical Care	0.115	0.043	0.309	<0.001	0.342	<0.001
Birth-Issues in Perinatal Care	0.234	<0.001	0.311	<0.001	0.347	<0.001
BMC Nursing	0.286	<0.001	0.244	0.003	0.204	0.014
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing	0.107	0.023	0.225	<0.001	0.233	<0.001
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing	0.143	0.005	0.239	<0.001	0.234	<0.001
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing	0.012	0.756	0.233	<0.001	0.315	<0.001
International Journal of Nursing Studies	0.207	<0.001	0.267	<0.001	0.371	<0.001
International Nursing Review	0.207	<0.001	0.226	<0.001	0.268	<0.001
Journal of Advanced Nursing	−0.022	0.299	0.105	<0.001	0.209	<0.001
Journal of Clinical Nursing	0.133	<0.001	0.230	<0.001	0.312	<0.001
Journal of Nursing Management	0.158	<0.001	0.206	<0.001	0.239	<0.001
Journal of Nursing Scholarship	0.164	<0.001	0.246	<0.001	0.209	<0.001
Nurse Education Today	0.086	0.001	0.188	<0.001	0.269	<0.001
Nursing Ethics	0.025	0.600	0.055	0.247	0.008	0.860
Nursing Outlook	0.255	<0.001	0.327	<0.001	0.316	<0.001
Research in Nursing & Health	0.152	0.006	0.174	0.002	0.200	<0.001
Seminars in Oncology Nursing	0.246	0.001	0.238	0.001	0.295	<0.001
Women and Birth	0.111	0.005	0.248	<0.001	0.275	<0.001
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing	0.245	<0.001	0.265	<0.001	0.295	<0.001