Global Bioremediation Research Output On Top Ten Cited Articles : An Altmetric Analysis

The availability of research on the social web is an important factor to determine its societal impact. The inability of traditional citation-based metrics to provide a complete picture of web-based scholarly content has given rise to alternative or to better say the complementary way of measuring the impact of research, Altmetrics has turned into a trailblazer, and got a decent arrangement of consideration by specialists associated with the assessment of logical research. The current study attempts to analyse top 10 cited articles in bioremediation research. It aims to find out to what extend the top cited articles have secured Altmetrics scores. Analysis of Spearman Rank correlation metrics shows less correlation between the ranks of citations and Altmetrics scores. The Mendeley is the major media through which bioremediation scholarly communication highly disseminated. The major reader’s geographic distribution is unknown. Regarding the category of reader’sPh.D students dominates, followed by researcher and masters’ students. Agricultural and biological science is the major discipline in accessing the bioremediation research content in social media, followed by chemical science and environmental science