The Altmetric Top 100 Research Articles in 2020.

Since 2013, the Altmetric Top 100 is a ranking of the research articles published each year that generated the most attention by the public in that year. The Altmetric Attention Score is derived from an algorithm that represents a weighted count of the amount of attention each article receives in media, social media, blogs, patents, policy documents and course syllabi. In 2020, Altmetric tracked 87.7 million mentions of 3.4 million research works across 20 research fields.

For 2020, Covid-19 research accounts for roughly 30% of the Altmetric Top 100, with research on climate change and prejudice coming next with the most significant attention .

Here are five of my favorite articles from the 2020 Altmetric Top 100:

1. Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit

Bullshit in the workplace can be a real problem; researchers propose the CRAP framework for dealing with it. The framework has four steps toward tackling bullshit: "Comprehend" why it exists; "Recognize" when it’s produced; know how to "Act"; and "Prevent" it from happening. I am one of the authors for this paper 😀.

2. A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta

A new smart toilet could give your number one the once-over for signs of disease, such as certain cancers, irritable bowel syndrome and kidney failure. The toilet can detect disease markers in stool and urine, helping people monitor their health.

3. A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

Tiny living, programmable robots could be used to deliver medicines to specific parts of the body, scrape plaque out of arteries or clean up microplastics in the ocean. The millimeter-wide ‘xenobots’ are built from living cells scraped from frog embryos.

4. The UK higher education senior management survey: a statactivist response to managerialist governance

On average, academics in the UK are only 10.54% satisfied with their senior management. Some of the major issues identified include excessive workload, perpetual change and work and mental health.

5. Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court

In New York City in 2015, about 100,000 people who had received a ticket for a minor offense missed their court date, resulting in an arrest warrant. Researchers suggest simple solutions to this problem: text message reminders increased court appearances by 21% and a redesigned form improved attendance by 13%

And this blog posting will further enhance the Altmetric Attention Score for each of these papers.

Here is the full reference for my paper that features in the top 100:

McCarthy, I.P., Hannah, D., Pitt, L.F. and McCarthy, J.M., 2020. Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit. Business Horizons, 63(3), pp.253-263.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2020.01.001

Ian McCarthy

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