Article level metrics - 1AM:London

Editor's Notes

• #8: Why do we think it's important? Use of article level metrics... to assist in the efforts to move away from the use of journal level metrics like the Impact Factor of the journal a manuscript is published in as a proxy for assessing the quality or importance of a publication to give a way for people to filter through large number of publications to find those of greatest impact and quality. One way of thinking about the peer review process is that it is a acts as a way to filter research, bringing out the most interesting/important work. Peer-review isn't always effective at this — typically the bulk of citations accrued by a journal are to a small number of articles. In this case it's much better to look at the number of citations that an individual article receives, as opposed to the average number of citations received by articles in the journal that the article has been published in (or the Impact Factor) - the Impact Factor of a journal isn't necessarily a good predictor of the number of citations each article receives. However citations take a long time to accrue, and other article level metrics might be able to give an indication of an article's impact a bit sooner. The long term aim of article level metrics is to look at the scientific community's reaction to an article using article level metrics following publication — what they are looking at, how much an article is being discussed, and what's being said about — and finding ways to capture and represent the information to help people to navigate the research, and finding out what's of importance to them.   ALMs are important to individual scientists to assess their own output, and also for funding bodies etc. for use in research assessment activities. Currently the way in which credit is given for publication to look at the Impact Factor of the publishing journal as an indication of the impact of the article —commonly hear that institutions research assessment only crediting research published in journals with an Impact Factor of whatever ALMs can give an understanding of how research findings are disseminated and accessed Research is ongoing to better understand the relationship of new article metrics with traditional measures, i.e. citations —some newer measures could provide an indication of the impact of a paper without an extensive lag time Making the data available allows investigation of questions correlation between the different measures of impact — does wide coverage of an article on social media cites like twitter indicate eventual high number of citations..?  
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