This study examined the distribution of altmetric attention received by publications in the Information Science & Library Science category indexed in the Web of Science database between 2012 and 2012. A weak correlation was observed between the publication year and Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) values, as well as between the citations received and AAS values. Furthermore, it was found that uncited documents received less altmetric attention than cited ones. Significant differences were also noted in AAS values between uncited, one-cited, and two+ cited documents. In conclusion, this study revealed that online attention in the Information Science & Library Science category is highly skewed, with most publications receiving little to no altmetric attention. The findings also suggest that altmetric attention may be related to citation class and that citations may have some impact on the AAS values of documents.

The use of the Journal Impact Factor as an indicator of the quality of individual articles and journals presents limitations. Here, we propose a new approach that combines citation distributions by percentiles, the number and proportion of uncited articles, and the number and proportion of publications below the mean citations in relation to the journal and the field as a method to measure the influence of the publications and their real visibility. We tested it with 10 journals under the Information Science and Library Science category (LIS) of the JCR whose articles were retrieved from OpenAlex for the period 2000-2020 and the results suggest that journals whose graphs present a lower proportion of articles below the mean citation in the category, a lower proportion of uncited documents, and a greater area below the diagonal are those that have more visibility, regardless of the number of publications and their age.