Early Mendeley readers correlate with later citation counts
Abstract
Counts of the number of readers registered in the social reference manager Mendeley have been proposed as an early impact indicator for journal articles. Although previous research has shown that Mendeley reader counts for articles tend to have a strong positive correlation with synchronous citation counts after a few years, no previous studies have compared early Mendeley reader counts with later citation counts. In response, this first...
Paper Details
Title
Early Mendeley readers correlate with later citation counts
Published Date
Mar 26, 2018
Journal
Volume
115
Issue
3
Pages
1231 - 1240
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