New Online: "Usage Bibliometrics"

By Michael J. Kurtz, Johan Bollen

From the arXchive Abstract:

Scholarly usage data provides unique opportunities to address the known shortcomings of citation analysis. However, the collection, processing and analysis of usage data remains an area of active research. This article provides a review of the state-of-the-art in usage-based informetric, i.e. the use of usage data to study the scholarly process.

Published in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol 44, p. 3-64 (2010)