As of last week, Nature now provides a real-time online count of article-level metrics for its published research papers. Citation data, news mentions, blog posts and details of sharing through social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, will be available for every research article published since last year.Nature Publishing Group (NPG) hopes thatthe information will be of interest to readers, as well as feeding into the evolving debate about alternative ways to evaluate scientific output.
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