AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced the launch of article-level metrics for its new, open access journal AIP Advances. The COUNTER 3-compliant tool measures abstract and full-text article views and offers a graphical snapshot of cumulative usage of both, beginning with the date the article is published online.
By focusing on individual research papers, independently from the journals in which they are published, article-level metrics, such as those now available on AIP Advances, allow papers to be judged on their own scientific merit. They provide a measure of an article's influence over time as the usage accrues. Together with existing community-driven features already available on AIP Advances, such as post-publication reader commentary and article ratings assessing impact, presentation, and reliability, article-level metrics offer researchers and readers new ways to identify research that will be of value to them.
AIP Advances is a fast-track, community-led open access journal, focusing on applied research in the physical sciences. All articles are published under a Creative Commons license. Authors pay to have their research published and made freely available worldwide and retain copyright for their work.
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