On Publication Usage in a Social Bookmarking System
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Web Science, page 67:1--67:2. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2015)DOI: 10.1145/2786451.2786927
Abstract
Scholarly success is traditionally measured in terms of citations to publications. With the advent of publication man- agement and digital libraries on the web, scholarly usage data has become a target of investigation and new impact metrics computed on such usage data have been proposed – so called altmetrics. In scholarly social bookmarking sys- tems, scientists collect and manage publication meta data and thus reveal their interest in these publications. In this work, we investigate connections between usage metrics and citations, and find posts, exports, and page views of publications to be correlated to citations.
