  This paper proposes a three-year average of social attention as a more
reliable measure of social impact for journals, since the social attention of
research can vary widely among scientific articles, even within the same
journal. The proposed measure is used to evaluate a journal's contribution to
social attention in comparison to other bibliometric indicators. The study uses
Dimensions as a data source and examines research articles from 76 disciplinary
library and information science journals through multiple linear regression
analysis. The study identifies socially influential journals whose contribution
to social attention is twice that of scholarly impact as measured by citations.
In addition, the study finds that the number of authors and open access have a
moderate impact on social attention, while the journal impact factor has a
negative impact and funding has a small impact.
