A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for six PLOS journals

• Wenya Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Peiling Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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• Qiang Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qiangwu@ustc.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1308-1669

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