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Scholarly Research Impact

Article Metrics

  • The Belmont Digital Repository provides the following article-level metrics (more details on the author metrics tab):
    • Number of downloads and page hits from the Repository including information about the user's geographic location and institutional affiliation when available.
    • PlumX metrics include online captures (bookmarks, etc.) as well as shares, likes, and comments on social media platforms.
  • Scopus provides the following article-level metrics:
    • Field Weighted Citation Impact is the ratio of the document's citations to the average number of citations received by all similar documents over a three-year window. Each discipline makes an equal contribution to the metric, which eliminates differences in researcher citation behavior.
    • Citation Benchmarking shows how citations received by this document compare with the average for documents in the same publication year, normalized by subject area. The 99th percentile is high, and indicates a document in the top 1% globally.
    • Views count is the sum or abstract views and clicks on the full-text link at the publisher website.
    • PlumX metrics include online captures (bookmarks, etc.) as well as shares, likes, and comments on social media platforms.
  • Google Scholar provides the following article-level metrics:
    •  Cited By counts