TY - JOUR T1 - ‘Altmetrics’! Can you afford to ignore it? JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1160 LP - 1161 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2017-098258 VL - 52 IS - 18 AU - Steffan Arthur Griffin AU - Christopher W Oliver AU - Andrew Murray Y1 - 2018/09/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/18/1160.abstract N2 - Number of citations, number of views, Altmetric. To be a relevant and respected researcher, and to succeed in the current ‘publish or perish’ climate, it is important to publish, and to communicate and disseminate research widely to increase its likelihood of influencing clinical and research practice. With over two million scientific articles being produced each year1 (and rising), how can you ensure your contribution is impactful?The number of citations in other published articles and ‘number of views’ has long been used as a guide to assess the impact of a paper.2 This may not be an effective ‘real-time’ measure as some impactful papers take years to generate citations. A journal’s impact factor (IF) has also been viewed as a measure of respectability and an indirect proxy of an article’s impact. However, questions arise regarding such ‘journal-level’ metrics when it comes … ER -