SUNScholar/Research Article Metrics

Introduction

Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a comprehensive and multi-dimensional suite of transparent and established metrics at the article level.

Altmetrics sources can be categorized as follows.

Usage=

• HTML views
• PDF/XML downloads (various sources – journal, PubMed Central, FigShare, Dryad, etc.)

Captures

• CiteULike bookmarks
• Mendeley readers/groups
• Delicio.us

Mentions

• Blog posts
• News stories
• Wikipedia articles
• Comments
• Reviews

Social Media

• Tweets
• Google+
• Facebook likes
• Shares
• Ratings

=Citations

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• CrossRef
• Pubmed Central

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