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Impact Factor and Journal Metrics

Article level metrics are an evolving area. Measures include the number of citations in social media sites (altmetrics), as well as open peer or crowd-based recommendations or reviews. 

Find and Use Altmetrics

Altmetric is a system that tracks the attention that research outputs such as scholarly articles and data sets receive online. It pulls data from:

  • Social media such as X and Facebook
  • Traditional media - both mainstream (The Guardian, New York Times) and field specific (New Scientist, Bird Watching). Many non-English language titles are covered. 
  • Blogs - both major organizations (Cancer Research UK) and individual researchers
  • Online reference managers like Mendeley and CiteULike

Resources for finding and using altmetrics:

Find and Use Citation Analysis