The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past decade. To better capture scientific impact in the digital era, a variety of new impact measures has been proposed on the basis of social network analysis and usage log data. In this paper, authors Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg and Ryan Chute, investigate how these new measures relate to each other, and how accurately and completely they express scientific impact.
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