Leveraging Tweets, Citations, and Social Networks to Improve Bibliometrics

[para. 1]: "Citations have long been the leading metric for articles, with the citation-based journal impact factor being the primary journal metric. As the world becomes increasingly digital, altmetrics (“alternative metrics,” including article page views and measures of social media sharing, such as the proprietary Altmetric attention score) have become more important in assessing the spread or potential value of a given scientific article. Giustini and colleagues compare citations with altmetrics in the pediatric literature. This study of pediatric articles highlights that while an article’s altmetrics are associated with future citations, most articles have very low metrics across all measures; only a very small fraction of articles account for most citations, page views, and other altmetrics."