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JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e74
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Access to Information; Open Access Publishing; Bibliometrics; Bibliography as Topic; Periodicals as Topic
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In the era of digitization and Open Access, article-level metrics are increasingly used to evaluate the influence of research works. Different metrics complement each other and require qualitative evaluation to prevent improper usage or exaggerated representation of social media activities.
In the era of digitization and Open Access, article-level metrics are increasingly employed to distinguish influential research works and adjust research management strategies. Tagging individual articles with digital object identifiers allows exposing them to numerous channels of scholarly communication and quantifying related activities. The aim of this article was to overview currently available article-level metrics and highlight their advantages and limitations. Article views and downloads, citations, and social media metrics are increasingly employed by publishers to move away from the dominance and inappropriate use of journal metrics. Quantitative article metrics are complementary to one another and often require qualitative expert evaluations. Expert evaluations may help to avoid manipulations with indiscriminate social media activities that artificially boost altmetrics. Values ofarticle metrics should be interpreted in view of confounders such as patterns of citation and social media activities across countries and academic disciplines.
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