@article{thelwall2012journal,
  abstract = {In theory, the web has the potential to provide information about the wider impact of academic research, beyond traditional scholarly impact. This is because the web can reflect non-scholarly uses of research, such as in online government documents, press coverage or public discussions. Nevertheless, there are practical problems with creating metrics for journals based on web data: principally that most such metrics should be easy for journal editors or publishers to manipulate. Nevertheless, two alternatives seem to have both promise and value: citations derived from digitised books and download counts for journals within specific delivery platforms.},
  author = {Thelwall, Mike},
  doi = {10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x},
  interhash = {834707cf0663109f7811a14ae746be72},
  intrahash = {284883bbaa636a0bab13fc54b903f363},
  issn = {0138-9130},
  journal = {Scientometrics},
  language = {English},
  number = 2,
  pages = {429-441},
  publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
  title = {Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0669-x},
  volume = 92,
  year = 2012
}