Research on the relationship between citation and altmetrics of Open Access Papers from different geographical regions

With the development of open access, more and more scientific papers are published in journals as PLoS and are freely available by online. Analyzing the relationship between citation and altmetrics of open access papers published on PLoS in recent 10 years by the 6 countries which are selected in terms of regional distribution, scientific level and native language etc., we induced the following conclusions: First, the different geographical regions have effect on the citation and the altmetrics of 'view' and 'save' (excepting 'share), because the means of them for developing countries are less than that of developed countries in last 10 years and the curve peaks of these 3 indicators of different countries occur in different years. Second, the citation and the altmetrics of 'view' and 'save' are significantly correlated with each other and have the similar variation patterns and accumulate with year, while the altmetrics of 'share' is just opposite. Therefore, to some extent the altmetrics of 'view' and `save' can evaluate scientific influence as a complement of citation, and the 'share' of PLoS papers seemingly just reflects the attention/mention of user rather than the academic influence because it is transient and uncorrelated with the citation.