Research Impact

Articles from PubMed investigating the effect of Twitter on citation and readings

If I tweet will you cite? The effect of social media exposure of articles on downloads and citations. PMID: 27193574

Medical journals, impact, and social media: an ecological study of the Twittersphere PMCID: PMC4674403 

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) was awarded a grant by the Sloan Foundation to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community.  

Spring 2016 drafts for recommended practice in the three areas are linked below:

1. Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data metrics
2. Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications
3. Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications