Citation

Peer Reviews

Usage

Social Media

Altmetrics Or alternative

metrics

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http://altmetric.com/interface/explorer.html

http://altmetric.com/interface/explorer.html

http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123/

Conclusion: Tweets can predict highly

cited articles within the first 3 days of

article publication. Social media activity

either increases citations or reflects the

underlying qualities of the article that

also predict citations, but the true use of

these metrics is to measure the distinct

concept of social impact.

Conclusion: We also find that the

volume of Twitter mentions is statistically

correlated with arXiv downloads and

early citations just months after the

publication of a preprint, with a possible

bias that favours highly mentioned

articles.

PaperCritic

Public Library of Science website

Plum Analytics

ScienceCard

ImpactStory

Altmetric.com

… and other beta tools

Funders : ROI

Researchers/Faculty : social/research

impact

Publishers : popularity

Librarians : scholarly comm specialist