Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement
Abstract
This paper investigates whether CiteULike and Mendeley are useful for measuring scholarly influence, using a sample of 1,613 papers published in Nature and Science in 2007. Traditional citation counts from the Web of Science (WoS) were used as benchmarks to compare with the number of users who bookmarked the articles in one of the two free online reference manager sites. Statistically significant correlations were found between the user counts...
Paper Details
Title
Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement
Published Date
Dec 21, 2011
Journal
Volume
91
Issue
2
Pages
461 - 471
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