Elsevier’s Scopus Introduces New Article Metrics Module
From the Scopus Blog:
The Scopus Article Metrics module was designed in accordance with 12 principles for the responsible use of metrics and includes new metrics based on four alternative metrics categories endorsed by the Snowball Metrics project:
- Scholarly Activity — Downloads and posts in common research tools such as Mendeley and CiteULike
- Social Activity — Mentions characterized by rapid, brief engagement on platforms used by the public, such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+
- Scholarly Commentary — Reviews, articles and blogs by experts and scholars, such as F1000 Prime, research blogs and Wikipedia
- Mass Media — Coverage of research output in the mass media (e.g., coverage in top tier media media)
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…Scopus is [also] introducing new percentile benchmarks to show how article citations or activity compare with the averages for similar articles, taking into account:
- Date of publication
- Document type
- Disciplines associated with its source
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