Reading the Altmetric 2014 Top 100 Articles from a Distance | Ernesto Priego

The London-based article-level metrics provider Altmetric published a list of their top 100 highest-scoring articles yesterday (access the full Top 100 list). For essential context, please read the accompanying blog post by Cat Chimes here, as well as her “"Unwanted attention?' November 14 2014 post here. This recent post on how Altmetric tracks global news will also be relevant to understand the context of the list ... I am interested in how bibliographic datasets can be subject to ‘distant reading': can we learn something from looking at what words are used in the titles of articles being mentioned online by larger audiences? Are there any correlations between wording in title,  topic, methodology, discipline, or region and an output’s access type? ..."