Are articles labelled as “Editor's Choice” downloaded more?

Our impact factor went from 2.000 to 2.613: So what?

“…Moreover, a highly cited paper in a specialty journal may not necessarily be well known to practicing clinicians. The actual impact of articles published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice may be better quantified using other metrics such as downloads, explored in part in a prior editorial . Altmetrics is another way of assessing impact; the Altmetric score is calculated using an algorithm considering mentions of the article in the news, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube and other popular media sources …”

International Journal of Clinical Practice: What was hot in 2018?

“…Last month we reported on a bibliometric experiment examining if articles in the International Journal of Clinical Practice designated as “Editor's Choice” are downloaded more often . For the top 10 downloaded articles, also reported were the Altmetric scores and citation rates, measures that summarise an article's potential newsworthiness and potential usefulness to other scholars, respectively.…”