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Citation Alert

New content item Your article makes an impact. Now we’ll tell you about it!

Thanks to the information we receive from Crossref.org, an article’s corresponding author will be alerted as soon as his/her paper is cited by another article.

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You can check on the cited articles and chapters within your series or journal and get an up-to-date impression of how your publication has been received. Find out more here citations.springer.com

Crossref is the only source of information used.
Corresponding authors will be alerted promptly whenever their article is cited.
The alert is hyperlinked to both the cited and the citing article (full text access depends on the reader’s license for Springer’s and the citing publisher’s content).
The alert is sent immediately after Springer receives the data from Crossref.
The time for data transfer from the citing publisher to Crossref varies greatly, from ca. 2-4 days up to ca. 2 months. Therefore the alert cannot be a real-time service.
Springer notifies Crossref within 24 hours when we publish new articles. So new citations from Springer articles in other Springer articles will usually be alerted within 48 hours.

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Article-level metrics

Explore how your article is being cited, used and discussed in the social web!

Article-level metrics (ALMs) refer to a whole range of measures that can provide insights into the “impact” or “reach” of an individual article.

Whereas the well-known Impact Factor measures citations at the journal level, ALMs aim to measure the research impact of an article in a transparent and comprehensive manner. They not only look at citations and usage but also include article coverage and discussions in the social web.

Statistics for your article

Thanks to our partnership with Altmetric we are able to provide detailed statistics on each article’s coverage and discussions in the media and on blogs; any bookmarking, ratings and discussions via bibliographic tools and sites such as Papers, Mendeley and ResearchGate; and social media sharing via platforms like Twitter or Facebook.

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book authors and editors, journal authors and editors
instructors
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users of special Springer promotion campaigns.

The book discount is connected to your springer.com user name and password (which you used for the MyPublication process).

You are entitled to order Springer books — print and electronic versions — at a generous discount. The quantity of books ordered must be in the normal range for private use.

If you are a co-author, editor-in-chief, editorial board member or if your article has been published outside the MyPublication process, please contact our Customer Service.

The SpringerToken is only needed for your first order! It is valid for a lifetime. For any further online orders of print/electronic books, you will automatically receive the author discount.

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Springer Nature Link: online access to my published article

If your institution has purchased access to Springer’s journals, your IP address will be recognized and you can access your article via your institution’s network.

Springer Nature Link offers off-campus access via username and password and supports access via Athens and Shibboleth. Both Athens and Shibboleth allow users to use single, sign-on to access web resources.

Springer offers access through Shibboleth via the institution login located in the login area on the right side of the screen in the masthead. Please contact your librarian and ask if your institution has a method of authentication that allows for off-campus access.

As an author, you are the first to be informed about the online publication of your article in Springer Nature Link via an email. This email is sent out the day your article is published in final version online on Springer Nature Link and includes a direct link to the abstract page of your article.

(Note that your email address must be published with the article online to receive an automatic author alert email).

Another fast and easy way to find your article in Springer Nature Link is to use the search on Springer Nature Link . There are a variety of different ways to search on Springer Nature Link . You can conduct a simple search by article title, author last name or DOI to find your published article on Springer Nature Link .

By entering a search term or phrase, you are searching the title, the abstract and the full-text (including authors, affiliations and references) of every article and book chapter on Springer Nature Link.

To cite your published article, use the “Export Citation” functionality offered as a tab above every article abstract. You can select the “RIS” or “Plain Text” option and your preferred citation manager. Your article citation will automatically open in Notepad if you choose not to use a citation manager, which you can save, or copy and paste.

Users will be able to export citations in RIS or plain text directly into ProCite, Bib Tex, EndNote, Reference Manager, RefWorks, PubMed(LNM), and BookEnds.

For citing Springer Online First articles that are available before being published in a paginated print issue, use the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) as a unique reference and link to the online version of the article. We recommend following these CrossRef guidelines: CrossRef.org

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