Alternative Metrics (“Altmetrics”) for Assessing Article Impact in Popular General Radiology Journals

Academic Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 891-897

  Rosenkrantz, Andrew B ^a   Ayoola, Abimbola ^a   Singh, Kush ^b   Duszak, Richard ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; biomedical journals; metrics; social media

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SCREENING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RADIOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85013923824     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2016.11.019     Document Type: Article

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