Fostering diffusion of scientific contents of National Society Cardiovascular Journals: the new ESC search engine

Characteristics and Longevity of Electronic Citations in Four Leading Biomedical Journals in Spain

“…These indicators could involve the extrapolation of some of the quality measures used in printed biomedical publications, such as peer review or other bibliometric markers. [23][24][25][26][27] It is therefore necessary to create a web quality indicator for homepages or websites, to provide weighted evaluations of aspects such as the number of visits, the date the page was last updated, identification of editors, the existence of any conflict of interest, any document revision dates, the existence of expert review, and the number of broken links reported in the past year. Indeed, some authors are already broaching the subject of cybermetric studies 28 and electronic impact factors.…”