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Docta Complutense author Álvarez Peregrina, Cristina author Villa Collar, César author Martínez Pérez, Clara author Peñaloza Barbosa, María Ibeth author Sánchez Tena, Miguel Ángel 2023-06-22T11:24:27Z 2023-06-22T11:24:27Z 2022-06-14 1660-4601 10.3390/ijerph19127270 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72388 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127270 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/7270 Myopia has become a public health issue worldwide. The fast increase in myopia prevalence in the last years has been accompanied by an increase in information through social and conventional media. This has led to the fight not only against a pandemic but also against the infodemic. The excess of information has made it increasingly difficult for health professionals to identify high-quality articles. Alternative Metrics are useful tools to identify publications that provoke attention to society. This research aims to study the impact that research on myopia has had on social media. Methods: Almetric Explorer was used to make a search using “myopia” as a keyword. The 100 outputs with the highest attention were analyzed and correlated with the number of cites on Web of Science using Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results: The top 100 Altmetric Attention Score were published in 47 journals and had a mean value of Altmetric Attention Score of 437.61 ± 718.33. The outputs were mostly discussed on Twitter, with a mean of 296.36 ± 1585.58 tweets and retweets, and a mean of 185.18 ± 211.57 readers in Mendeley. There was a low correlation between Altmetric Attention Score and Web of Science Cites for the top-100 outputs. Conclusions: although myopia is a research topic with a high interest in society, most cited articles are not those with the most impact on social media. Myopia researchers should make more effort in promoting their goals, and social media is a useful tool to share them. eng Atribución 3.0 España Social Media Impact of Myopia Research journal article URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/a8305d6e-e9ec-42f5-b9f3-860580c2ee09/download File MD5 524d06e88510d0f47fcdf9054a95c14d 514552 application/pdf ijerph-19-07270.pdf URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/87ebc538-a5db-423d-a191-b35585ea940f/download File MD5 ad01b777b4c80c0fbaa9d6735f6634a5 47701 text/plain ijerph-19-07270.pdf.txt