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The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2018

This article is part 1 of a series reviewing selected papers from Altmetric’s list of the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2018.

As we’ve done in previous years, we once again take an end-of-year look at the open access papers related to knowledge management from Altmetric’s list of the top 100 most-mentioned scholarly articles published through the year.

Altmetric has published the top 100 list since 2013, and in November published a blog post revealing key insights from the five years of top 100 lists between 2013 and 2017. These insights include:

  • Most of the research in the Top 100 lists to date has been authored by researchers from institutions in the US and UK. While Altmetric advises that this is partly due to the availability of data and the high volume of mentions from western social media sources, I suggest that this bias is largely associated with the global knowledge imbalance that I’ve discussed in a previous RealKM Magazine article.
  • Altmetric expected that the number of titles published open access would increase steadily over time, reflecting the increasing shift to open access. However, there’s been no significant increase, with around 30 – 40 open access articles featuring in each year’s list. This is very disappointing, and highlights a need for more action in support of open access by authors, publishers, and research funders.

In 2018, Altmetric tracked over 25 million mentions of 2.8 million research outputs to prepare the top 100 list. The open access papers related to knowledge management from the 2018 list are:

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Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is a knowledge management (KM), environmental management, and education thought leader with more than 40 years of experience. As editor and lead writer of the award-winning RealKM Magazine, he has personally written more than 500 articles and published more than 2,000 articles overall, resulting in more than 2 million reader views. With a demonstrated ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to social and ecological complexity, Bruce has successfully completed more than 40 programs, projects, and initiatives including leading complex major programs. His many other career highlights include: leading the KM community KM and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, using agile approaches to oversee the on time and under budget implementation of an award-winning $77.4 million recovery program for one of Australia's most iconic river systems, leading a knowledge strategy process for Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) regional organisations, pioneering collaborative learning and governance approaches to empower communities to sustainably manage landscapes and catchments in the face of complexity, being one of the first to join a new landmark aviation complexity initiative, initiating and teaching two new knowledge management subjects at Shanxi University in China, and writing numerous notable environmental strategies, reports, and other works. Bruce is currently a PhD candidate in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group at Wageningen University and Research, and holds a Master of Environmental Management with Distinction and a Certificate of Technology (Electronics). As well as his work for RealKM Magazine, Bruce currently also teaches in the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) Certified High-school Pathway (CHP) program in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.

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