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May 20, 2009
Interested in a new kind of journal impact factor? Mendeley's on it!
I've written before about Mendeley, the tool that combines citation management with social networking. It's got a really cool feature that's becoming more important as the number of articles in Mendeley increases (more than 1 million now). Mendeley provides article-level usage statistics in real time, to create a new kind of impact factor. You can see how often the article is downloaded, shared, and the average reading time.
Thanks to Cameron Neylon for this image.
What this means: you don't have to wait years to see how often an article is being cited.
To see the complete post, click here:
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/05/ologeez-founder-joins-mendeley/
Check out this video of a short presentation by one of Mendeley’s creators, Victor Henning, at the recent "Next Web" conference in Amsterdam.
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And remember that I'm giving a presentation June 10 on Mendeley in the School of Dentistry's IT Boot Camp series. Come to see it or look for it on SlideShare and the School of Dentistry and HSL web sites.
Posted by cshannon at May 20, 2009 10:11 AM