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MDPI

Founded in 1996, the publisher MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is based in Switzerland and publishes 203 open access journals, mostly in the sciences.

Types of OA Publishers

“Types of OA Publishers” by Annie Johnson   A Brief Introduction to Open Access Journal Publishers

Journal level metrics

Journal level metrics – metrics that apply to all papers published within a journal. A common example is Thomson Reuters’ journal impact factor.

H-index

H-index – a personal metric that relates the number of citations to the number of published papers for an academic.

Impact factor

Impact factor – a numerical measure that indicates the average number of citations to articles published over the previous two years in a journal, and frequently used as a proxy for a journal’s relative importance.

Bibliometrics

Bibliometrics is the branch of library and information science concerned with the application of mathematical and statistical analysis to bibliography. Bibliometrics involves the statistical analysis of books, articles, or other publications.

Article-level metrics

Article-level metrics – all types of article-level metrics including download and usage statistics, citations, and article-level altmetrics

Altmetrics

Altmetrics are alternative ways of recording and measuring the use and impact of scholarship. Rather than solely counting the number of times a work is cited in scholarly literature, alternative metrics also measure and analyze social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter,…

Registered Reports

Registered Reports – A type of publication in which peer review of the suggested method is completed prior to data collection and analysis. Accepted papers then are guaranteed publication in the journal if the authors follow through with the registered…