Using Alternative Bibliometric Indices to Characterize High-Impact Articles Published in the Field of Facial Plastic Surgery

Background: Conventional measures of scholarly impact derived from citation count do not account for academic readership and do not measure impact on the nonacademic audience (ie, the general population that does not engage in scholarship). To more broadly characterize attention received by research articles, alternative measures have been developed, including Mendeley readership and Altmetric Attention scores. Together, these metrics reflect...