The post I just wrote on laser guide stars and magnetometers reminded me that I meant to write something about the recently announced collaboration between ResearchBlogging and Public Library of Science (PLoS). PLoS publishes several peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical science and provides open access to all the articles published. In an attempt to move away from journal impact factors in assessing the importance of a paper, PLoS make available a number of article-level metrics, such as ratings, citations, downloads. The most recent addition to these metrics is  the integration of the ResearchBlogging portal, to provide links to blog posts that scientists have written about the article, as an added way of measuring an article’s impact. To see how it works, watch the video below.

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