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Public Library of Science, PLoS Biology, 10(11), p. e1001687, 2013

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001687

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What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?

Journal article published in 2013 by Martin Fenner ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

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.