Mendeley readership altmetrics for medical articles: An analysis of 45 fields
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Mendeley readership altmetrics for medical articles: An analysis of 45 fields
Medical research is highly funded and often expensive and so is particularly important to evaluate effectively. Nevertheless, citation counts may accrue too slowly for use in some formal and informal evaluations. It is therefore important to investigate whether alternative metrics could be used as substitutes. This article assesses whether one such altmetric, Mendeley readership counts, correla...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2330-1635
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23501