Newstex Blog
February 27, 2015
Study Finds Online Mentions of Scholarly Documents Affects Research Impact
In an analysis of online mentions of over 2.5 million medical and health sciences-related scholarly documents, Altmetric found that the share of scholarly papers that are mentioned through social media, online news media, social bookmarking, and more has risen from one in 20 in 2009 to nearly one in four in 2014.