Importance of Mendeley readership on altmetrics based on the Altmetric score

Abstract

Recent researches increasingly show the awareness and importance of altmetrics, which collect impact scores from social media. One of the most notable elements in altmetrics is Mendeley, originally one of the reference management services but currently the largest research database in the world. While Mendeley consists of several metrics, the inevitable element we could use in altmetrics tool is Readership. In this paper we analyze the importance of Mendeley Readership for altmetrics, aggregating data from Mendeley Institutional Edition and altmetrics tool.