1.6: Research Assessment
Improve research assessment. Other Information:
Improving Research Assessment - PLOS believes that there is much to be gained from assessing research articles on their own
merits rather than on the basis of the journal (and its impact factor) where the work happens to be published. Until recently,
however, readers have simply not had suitable tools to give them any indication of the quality (or “impact”) of an individual
article. All PLOS articles feature a suite of article-level metrics that includes measures of online usage; citations from
the scholarly literature; social bookmarks; blog coverage; and the Comments, Notes, and “Star” ratings that have been made
on the article. A reader can now scan the various metrics to determine the extent to which the article has been viewed, cited,
covered in the media, and so forth.
Indicator(s):
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