Figure 1.
Research Blogging Posts over time.
RB posts indexed since its creation.
Figure 2.
Post distribution by Research Blogging topic category.
Posts classified by self-assigned categories available within RB site.
Figure 3.
Research Blogging post distribution by language.
English is supported since RB inception in 2007. The other languages were added gradually (German, August 2008; Spanish, May 2009; Portuguese, June 2009; Chinese, August 2009; Polish, April 2010; Italian, December 2010).
Table 1.
Research Blogging post topic by language.
Figure 4.
Research Blogging posts and citations.
Only posts citing peer-reviewed research from periodicals were considered.
Figure 5.
Journal titles by subject areas.
Table 2.
Most cited Journals at Research Blogging posts.
Figure 6.
Correlation matrix between RB counts and JCR metrics, depicting the magnitude of correlation between variables.
All non-significant correlations were set to zero.
Figure 7.
Article views (in thousands) are represented according to citing posts at Research Blogging. Most recent articles have less time to accumulate views.
Figure 8.
Relationship between RB Total Views and Citations.
The trend-line was estimated through exponential fitting between the count data through non-linear squares and the correlation was estimated through Spearman rank-based statistic ρ.