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"Pre-print" of forthcoming PLoS article by Mike Thelwall, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto concludes that there is strong evidence that six of the eleven altmetrics (tweets, Facebook wall posts, research highlights, blog mentions, mainstream media mentions and forum posts) associate with citation counts.

Descriptive, interesting, but ultimately rather inconclusive editorial about alt metrics by Richard Smith in ecancerMedicaScience, the open access cancer journal from the European Institute of Oncology and the OECI.