We’re pleased to announce that ecancermedicalscience has now introduced Article Level Metrics.  This new functionality gives authors and readers the ability to discover the wider impact of individual articles in a way that was not previously possible.  Authors will now be able to track their article across the internet and access statistics on how many people have read their work in a variety of international repositories, social media and online reference managers. 

Currently, the metrics included are: views of each article on ecancer, views of the full text on PubMed Central, shares on Mendeley, citations in PubMed Central and Twitter mentions. Amalgamated views are shown at the top right of each article, with separate views below the abstract.  We plan to develop a wider range of metrics as more become available.

Example of Article Level Metrics: Highlights from the 13th St Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2013. Access to innovation for patients with breast cancer: how to speed it up?

ecancer’s Article Level Metrics are powered by the PLoS ALM open source application and we’d like to thank Martin Fenner, Technical Lead at PLoS, for all his help in developing them.

See altmetrics.org, What can article-level metrics do for you? and Alternative metrics for measuring the quality of articles and journals for more information on alternative metrics.