References in research blogs correlated with increased journal citations.
Papers that are formally cited by research-oriented blogs receive more journal citations, finds a study published on 15 January (H. Shema et al. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. http://doi.org/q88; 2014). For 7 of the 12 scientific journals examined in 2009, and 13 of 19 journals analysed in 2010, papers cited in blog posts aggregated by ResearchBlogging.org received more subsequent citations than did papers from the same journal in the same year that had not been cited by blogs. Hiring and tenure-review committees could use blog citations to assess the impact of recently published papers, suggests co-author Hadas Shema, an information scientist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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Blog citations count. Nature 506, 123 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7486-123a
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