The spread of scientific information: insights from the web usage statistics in PLoS article-level metrics.

The presence of web-based communities is a distinctive signature of Web 2.0. The web-based feature means that information propagation within each community is highly facilitated, promoting complex collective dynamics in view of information exchange. In this work, we focus on a community of scientist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Koon-Kiu Yan, Mark Gerstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3095621?pdf=render