Altmetric tracks the buzz around scholarly articles: You can make a difference

Altmetric tracks the buzz around scholarly articles - see an example: http://bit.ly/1lF9KtR You can make a difference. See how my blog contributed to one of highest ever scores in this journal for this article (ranked #7 of 972): Children with severe asthma have 32 times higher risk for developing COPD http://buff.ly/1oIJ3FHHere is the blog post: Allergy Notes: What are the top 3 asthma articles for March 2014? Vote here http://bit.ly/1hjZ6JuThe article will be included in the next edition of What Is New In Small Airways Researchhttp://www.worldallergy.org/small_airways_group/reviews/The beautiful flower of Internet Conversation has lost quite a few petals since 2008 but it still works:Don't close blog comments on your site. See how one comment changed influenza treatment: http://buff.ly/1hDJ2MN and http://buff.ly/1i5b3leFrom the Guardian:"But then a Japanese paediatrician called Keiji Hayashi left a comment that would trigger a revolution in our understanding of how evidence-based medicine should work. This wasn't in a publication, or even a letter: it was a simple online comment, posted informally underneath the Tamiflu review on the Cochrane website, almost like a blog comment.Cochrane had summarised the data from all the trials, explained Hayashi, but its positive conclusion was driven by data from just one of the papers it cited: an industry-funded summary of 10 previous trials, led by an author called Kaiser. From these 10 trials, only two had ever been p...
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