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. 2021 Jan 3;126(2):1189–1215. doi: 10.1007/s11192-020-03809-7

Table 3.

Sources of altmetrics with the numbers of the articles associated with those sources

Category Metric Metric # of articles
Citations Citation count Scopus 40
Capture Readers Mendeley 13
Mentions Blog mentions Blog 43
News mentions News 72
Q&A site mentions Stack exchange 8
References Wikipedia 8
Social Media Shares, likes and comments Facebook 67
Tweets Twitter 157
Usage Abstract views Digital commons 1