Measuring the impact of journal articles: ResearchBlogging.org and PLoS join together
Posted by Celia Walter | 24 Dec, 2009
... A new movement is afoot to improve on this system, and ResearchBlogging.org is proud to be a part of it. Instead of assigning
ratings to entire journals, “article-level metrics” strives to assess
the importance of each individual article published. The
highly respected journal publisher PLoS began its article-level metrics
initiative with several basic tools in March of 2009. But as PLoS ONE
publisher Peter Binfield explained
in a recent presentation, their plan included rolling out several more
advanced features over the course of the year. Today marks the launch
of one such tool, a partnership with ResearchBlogging.org to
identify—nearly in real time—well-considered blog posts written about
their articles...[More] From Researchblogging.