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dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-20T10:08:35Z
dc.date.available2018-03-20T10:08:35Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-26
dc.identifier.citationThelwall, M. (2018) Early Mendeley readers correlate with later citation counts. Scientometrics 115 (3), pp 1231–1240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2715-9
dc.identifier.issn0138-9130en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11192-018-2715-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621193
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Scientometrics on 26/03/2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2715-9 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
dc.description.abstractCounts 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 diachronic analysis compares reader counts within a month of publication with citation counts after 20 months for ten fields. There were moderate or strong correlations in eight out of ten fields, with the two exceptions being the smallest categories (n=18, 36) with wide confidence intervals. The correlations are higher than the correlations between later citations and early citations, showing that Mendeley reader counts are more useful early impact indicators than citation counts.
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-018-2715-9en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectMendeleyen
dc.subjectcitation analysisen
dc.subjectaltmetricsen
dc.subjectalternative indicatorsen
dc.titleEarly Mendeley readers correlate with later citation countsen
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalScientometricsen
dc.date.accepted2018-03-01
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUoW200318MTen
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-03-20en
dc.source.volume115
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage1231
dc.source.endpage1240
refterms.dateFCD2019-03-20T10:13:41Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-21T14:56:39Z
html.description.abstractCounts 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 diachronic analysis compares reader counts within a month of publication with citation counts after 20 months for ten fields. There were moderate or strong correlations in eight out of ten fields, with the two exceptions being the smallest categories (n=18, 36) with wide confidence intervals. The correlations are higher than the correlations between later citations and early citations, showing that Mendeley reader counts are more useful early impact indicators than citation counts.


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