The Public Library in Science (PLoS) articles now include a metrics tab– “Article-Level Metrics“–that allows for evaluation of research impact. Available data includes:

Article usage statistics – HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads
Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef
Social bookmarks – currently from CiteULike and Connotea
Comments – left by readers [...]

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A new report, “Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate their Findings” published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC is now available.
“According to the report, if funders and institutions want to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must [...]

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Are you funded by NIH and publishing applicable works that apply under the NIH Public Access Policy? If so, a PMCID is required to demonstrate compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy for works that are three months post publication.
 If a PMCID is not available, there may be several reasons depending on the submission method [...]

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