What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?

Martin Fenner

PLOS Biology, 2013, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-4

Abstract: : Martin Fenner discusses the PLOS article-level metrics and how they can be used to assess the value of published research as part of the Tenth Anniversary PLOS Biology Collection. Article-level metrics (ALMs) provide a wide range of metrics about the uptake of an individual journal article by the scientific community after publication. They include citations, usage statistics, discussions in online comments and social media, social bookmarking, and recommendations. In this essay, we describe why article-level metrics are an important extension of traditional citation-based journal metrics and provide a number of example from ALM data collected for PLOS Biology.

Date: 2013
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