Here's wikipedia's description from it's Impact Factor page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
Alternative metrics, or "altmetrics", often measure impact at an article level and include article views, downloads, or mentions in social media.
Some samples described in class has to do with how many times an article has been cited, linked, e-mailed or downloaded.
One slide showed the geographic distribution of a scholarly article getting read.
With Blogger, you get to track the same info with your blog.
Here's a screenshot of that example
My "all-time" stats
(well actually since 2007, when Blogger started tracking these things)
(the green & white blob on the right just blocks out other info, related to what web browsers are linking to my blog, I put that green & white blob courtesy of Jing)
But yeah, I do have an international audience. Even from Latvia a tiny European country.
This list only shows the top 10 countries. Those that didn't have 208 pageviews got left out. :(
But for the pageviews for this week
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A little more diverse group of countries listed there
But my quest for world domination is not complete. India is the 2nd most populated country in the world but is not on either list. Also, neither list had gotten an African or Middle Eastern country. Hopefully whoever was spreading the word in Latvia will soon spread the word in Africa, the Middle East and India.
PS: I know rapper Pitbull is the real "Mr Worldwide". Much respect to him!
