Avishek Pal, Wesley Portegies, Jennifer Schwinn, Michael Taylor, Tomas J Rees, Sarah Thomas, Kim Brown, Gareth Morrell, Josh Nicholson, Brian Falcone, Renu Juneja
Different stakeholders, such as authors, research institutions, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) may determine the impact of peer-reviewed publications in different ways. Commonly-used measures of research impact, such as the Journal Impact Factor or the H-index, are not designed to evaluate the impact of individual articles. They are heavily dependent on citations, and therefore only measure impact of the overall journal or researcher respectively, taking months or years to accrue. The past decade has seen the development of article-level metrics (ALMs), that measure the online attention received by an individual publication in contexts including social media platforms, news media, citation activity, and policy and patent citations...
February 20, 2024: Current Medical Research and Opinion