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. 2013 May 28;8(5):e64841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064841

Table 2. Successes and failures for articles with non-zero metric scores, aggregated by journal, and only including journals for which there it is at least one success or failure.

Metric+ Mostly success Mostly failure Z Equal Journals
Tweets** 1097 (58%) 646 (34%) 10.8 148 (8%) 1891
** 1032 (59%) 586 (33%) 11.1 139 (8%) 1757
FbWalls** 414 (53%) 282 (36%) 5.0 86 (11%) 782
** 308 (55%) 188 (34%) 5.4 62 (11%) 558
RH 276 (51%) 221 (41%) 2.5 47 (9%) 544
193 (51%) 157 (41%) 1.9 30 (8%) 380
Blogs** 190 (58%) 104 (32%) 5.0 32 (10%) 326
** 129 (57%) 70 (31%) 4.2 26 (12%) 225
Google+ 61 (50%) 53 (44%) 0.7 7 (6%) 121
25 (48%) 24 (46%) 0.1 3 (6%) 52
MSM 29 (56%) 17 (33%) 1.8 6 (12%) 52
13 (52%) 9 (36%) 0.9 3 (12%) 25
Reddits 22 (51%) 17 (40%) 0.8 4 (9%) 43
9 (47%) 7 (37%) 0.5 3 (16%) 19
Forums 5 (83%) 1 (17%) 1.6 0 (0%) 6
3 (100%) 0 (0%) 1.7 0 (0%) 3
Q&A 4 (67%) 1 (17%) 1.3 1 (17%) 6
2 (67%) 0 (0%) 1.4 1 (33%) 3
Pinners 2 (67%) 1 (33%) 0.6 0 (0%) 3
0 (−%) 0 (−%) - 0 (−%) 0
LinkedIn 0 (−%) 0 (−%) - 0 (−%) 0
0 (−%) 0 (−%) - 0 (−%) 0

+ In each cell the upper figure is for all journals and the lower figure is for journals with at least 10 articles tested. * Ratio of successes to failures significantly different from 0.5 at p = 0.05, ** Significant at p = 0.01; both Bonferroni corrected for n = 11.