Following yesterday's announcement of our new article metrics service today we present the first in a series of articles explaining its individual elements.  Today we tell you more about Total Article Views and Views by Month.

Total Article Views summarises the total views of both the article webpage and the article PDF since publication.   

Below is Views by Month, where this information is presented by month.  If the user positions their mouse cursor over a graph bar further information on that month is displayed on the right.

In most cases these will present information from both the Libertas website and Pubmed Central. However it does not at present include other external locations where the article could also be hosted such as Scopus. Data from the Libertas website is collected and sorted with Project COUNTER Release 3, which excludes automated search engine, archiving downloads, and rapid sequences of views and downloads.

Limitations apply to this data for some articles.  These are summarised in the About Article Metrics text at the bottom of each article metrics webpage.

Further reading

Article Usage Metrics: Total Article Views and Views by Region

Article Usage Metrics: Altmetrics Collaboration