Introducing altmetrics to the Journal of the Medical Library Association
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Most readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) are well aware of the inappropriateness of evaluating individual journal articles by their journals’ impact factors. This is because, among other reasons, a journal’s citations are not evenly distributed across its articles. Rather, a small proportion (20%) of articles often accounts for most (80%) of a journal’s citations [1]. Therefore, individual journal articles deserve to be judged on their own merits.
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