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On Publication Usage in a Social Bookmarking System

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Scholarly success is traditionally measured in terms of citations to publications. With the advent of publication management and digital libraries on the web, scholarly usage data has become a target of investigation and new impact metrics computed on such usage data have been proposed -- so called altmetrics. In scholarly social bookmarking systems, scientists collect and manage publication meta data and thus reveal their interest in these publications. In this work, we investigate connections between usage metrics and citations, and find posts, exports, and page views of publications to be correlated to citations.

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    WebSci '15: Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference
    June 2015
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    DOI:10.1145/2786451
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    1. altmetrics
    2. collaborative tagging
    3. scholarly impact
    4. social bookmarking

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    June 28 - July 1, 2015
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    • (2018)Can We Count on Social Media Metrics?Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science10.1145/3201064.3201101(215-219)Online publication date: 15-May-2018
    • (2018)Accessing Information with Tags: Search and RankingSocial Information Access10.1007/978-3-319-90092-6_9(310-343)Online publication date: 3-May-2018
    • (2017)Social bookmarking systems to enhance students' learning process2017 3rd International Conference on Science in Information Technology (ICSITech)10.1109/ICSITech.2017.8257148(413-417)Online publication date: Oct-2017
    • (2016)What Users Actually Do in a Social Tagging SystemACM Transactions on the Web10.1145/289682110:2(1-32)Online publication date: 20-May-2016

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