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Three Years On

Ian Hamilton Article-Level Metrics Submissions

December 20 is not only the anniversary of the first screening of Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), and of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), but it’s also PLoS ONE’s third birthday: we launched on December 20, 2006, with our first 105 articles (plus the sandbox article). Why not help us celebrate by visiting the new PLoS Online Store and ordering a t-shirt or hoodie from our range of official merchandise?

To commemorate our birthday, we’ve selected ten papers published in our inaugural release on December 20, all of which highlight some of the usage data made available on all PLoS papers earlier this year as part of our article-level metrics programme. This is how they have performed in the various metrics over the past three years:

A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments
Mel Slater, Angus Antley, Adam Davison, David Swapp, Christoph Guger, et al.

  • Total article views: 69353
  • Cited in: Scopus (23), PubMed Central (4), CrossRef (9)
  • 1 User Rating
  • 6 comment/note threads

    • The Evolution of Mammalian Gene Families
    Jeffery P. Demuth, Tijl De Bie, Jason E. Stajich, Nello Cristianini, Matthew W. Hahn

  • Total article views: 17975
  • Cited in: Scopus (41), PubMed Central (21), CrossRef (19)
  • 1 User Rating
  • 8 comment/note threads

    • Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Mediated Functional Tooth Regeneration in Swine
    Wataru Sonoyama, Yi Liu, Dianji Fang, Takayoshi Yamaza, Byoung-Moo Seo, et al.

  • Total article views: 22970
  • Cited in: Scopus (50), PubMed Central (6), CrossRef (24)
  • 3 comment/note threads

    • Taxonomic Reliability of DNA Sequences in Public Sequence Databases: A Fungal Perspective
    R. Henrik Nilsson, Martin Ryberg, Erik Kristiansson, Kessy Abarenkov, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Urmas Kõljalg

  • Total article views: 6555
  • Cited in: Scopus (39), PubMed Central (9), CrossRef (13)
  • 1 User Rating
  • 6 comment/note threads

    • Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Brain Size in Primates
    Michael A. Schillaci

  • Total article views: 10993
  • Cited in: Scopus (7), CrossRef (4)
  • 1 User Rating
  • 8 comment/note threads

    • Perceptual Learning of Motion Leads to Faster Flicker Perception
    Aaron R. Seitz, Jose E. Nanez, Sr., Steve R. Holloway, Takeo Watanabe

  • Total article views: 4968
  • Cited in: Scopus (5), CrossRef (1), PubMed Central (1)
  • 1 User Rating
  • 6 comment/note threads (from the Perception Journal Club School of Psychology Sydney University)

    • Concentration of the Most-Cited Papers in the Scientific Literature: Analysis of Journal Ecosystems
    John P. A. Ioannidis

  • Total article views: 16967
  • Cited in: Scopus (4), CrossRef (2), PubMed Central (6)
  • 2 User Ratings
  • 2 comment/note threads

    • A Systems Biology Strategy Reveals Biological Pathways and Plasma Biomarker Candidates for Potentially Toxic Statin-Induced Changes in Muscle
    Reijo Laaksonen, Mikko Katajamaa, Hannu Päivä, Marko Sysi-Aho, Lilli Saarinen, et al.

  • Total article views: 15132
  • Cited in: Scopus (34), PubMed Central (9), CrossRef (19)
  • 1 comment/note thread

    • Multilocus Sequence Typing Breathes Life into a Microbial Metagenome
    Eshwar Mahenthiralingam, Adam Baldwin, Pavel Drevinek, Elke Vanlaere, Peter Vandamme, et al.

  • Total article views: 23594
  • Cited in: Scopus (13), PubMed Central (3), CrossRef (9)
  • 4 comment/note threads

    • Depauperate Avifauna in Plantations Compared to Forests and Exurban Areas
    David G. Haskell, Jonathan P. Evans, Neil W. Pelkey

  • Total Article Views: 5098
  • Cited in: Scopus (2), CrossRef (3)
  • 3 note/comment threads

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