The life cycle of altmetric impact: A longitudinal study of six metrics from PlumX

Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 579 - 589
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to describe the life cycle of altmetric and bibliometric indicators in a sample of publications. Altmetrics (Downloads, Views, Readers, Tweets, and Blog mentions) and bibliometric counts (Citations) (in this study, the indicators will be capitalized to differentiate them from the general language) of 5185 publications (19,186 observations) were extracted from PlumX to observe their distribution according to...
Paper Details
Title
The life cycle of altmetric impact: A longitudinal study of six metrics from PlumX
Published Date
Aug 1, 2018
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
579 - 589
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