First generation metrics of publication involved the count of publication number and the number of citations through tools such as the ISI (Now Thomson Reuters) impact factor. Later, other network analysis tools appeared such as SCIMago Journal Rank. More recently, PDF downloads, HTML page views or scholarly and social network activity (cites in Twitter or Facebook) measured by tools such as Altmetrics donuts appeared as a new way to evaluate how our paper has influenced part of the scientific or the overall population. Do you believe that use in social networks will succeed as a new publication metrics?
I would like to draw an analogy with the production of quality music. Is high quality music that which is melodic and unforgettable, or that which has a expensive marketing campaign, and lots of exposure on pop radio?
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