Mendeley is a database for scientists to save and share papers. This database can be used to track readership and citations.


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- Scopus
- Altmetric.com
- PlumX
- Mendeley

Databases to Find Scientific Article Metrics

Bar-Ilan, J., & Halevi, G. (2020). Retracted articles: The scientific version of fake news. In R. Greifeneder, M. Jaffé, E. J. Newman, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation (pp. 47–70). London: Routledge. 

Retracted articles: The scientific version of fake news

“altmetrics”: readership, downloads, social media mentions, etc.

Alternative Metrics 

Scopus is a database that can be used to track citations of scientific articles. The year of the citation is shown, so the researchers can see whether the citation was made before or after the article was retracted.


Scopus (Scientific Database)

Mendeley (Scientific Database)

PlumX displays many different metrics for scientific articles. These include number of citations, number of social media shares, social media mentions, and number of downloads. 


PlumX (Scientific Database)

This database is similar to PlumX. The main difference is that the content of the social media mentions or blog posts are available. This allows the researchers to see if the article is positively or negatively mentioned by others.


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