About the Altmetric Explorer. Altmetrics at your fingertips We're the largest publisher agnostic source of altmetrics data for scholarly articles, holding data on some 2.6 million unique papers - and we're still growing.
Search Search using boolean queries over titles in the Altmetric database. E-mail alerts. Alternative Research Metrics. Most scientific researchers know the agony of waiting to hear about the status of a submitted manuscript.
They are eager to change the phrase "manuscript submitted" on a grant application or curriculum vitae to "in press" in advance of some crucial deadline. Publications in prestigious journals—not necessarily the articles themselves but the fact of their existence—are the established and universal, albeit imperfect, way of claiming credit for the scientific work you've done, and there's always a delay. But when sociologist Margarita Mooney of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, recently applied for a grant, she was able to take instant credit for one aspect of her work: the readership of her blog, as documented by Google Analytics. Article collections published by the Public Library of Science. Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments.
As scholarship increasingly moves online, these metrics track associated interactions and activity to generate fine-grained data, allowing researchers and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture of the reach and impact of academic research. Altmetrics research seeks to build and track a rich, holistic image of impact on diverse audiences (general public as well as scholars) and monitors diverse types of engagement with scholarship, including viewership, discussion, bookmarking, and recommendation, along with traditional citation.
The PLOS ONE Altmetrics Collection gathers an emerging body of research to seed further study and use of altmetrics. Articles are presented in order of publication date and new articles will be added to the Collection as they are published. Further information on altmetrics can be found at altmetrics.org. ALM Workshop #alm12. Please visit the permanent site for the ALM Workshop 2012 for the latest, updated content.
Thank you. Building off last year’s Beyond Impact Workshop; altmetrics11 & 12; and a storm of activity they have since catalyzed, PLOS hosted the 2012 ALM Workshop on November 1-3, 2012 in San Francisco. We convened various groups across the research ecosystem – researchers, institutions, publishers, funders, technology and service providers – for 3 days of collaborative breakout sessions amongst and between these groups. Purpose and Aims: Altmetrics – Trying to Fill the Gap. “Mind The Gap” inscription on the London Underground, Bank station.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Presentation. Euan Adie (euan@altmetric.com) Jun 21st, 2012 Scientists talk.
Let's listen. Article Level Metrics. Welcome to Altmetric. Altmetric.com - making article level metrics easy. June 21, 2012 The following post comes from Euan Adie, founder of Altmetric, the newest addition to the Digital Science family, announced today.
Euan also doubles as a product manager at Digital Science working on our data tools. You can follow him at @stew or the project at @altmetric. We've got a simple sounding mission at Altmetric - to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature. If I'm honest the main reason I started working on the system is because I think aggregating scholarly metadata is cool (what? - If you're a scientist you should have a quick and easy way to see which papers your peers are talking about and where. - If you're an author you should be able to identify and respond to comments about your work. - If you're a patient you should be able to put any relevant research you find in context. - If you're an editor you should be able to track the trends and hot topics in your field of interest. SPARC Europe's Webcast: Jennifer Lin on Article Level Metrics. Presentation. Altmetrics, a guide to Twitter for academics, and increasing your academic footprint: our round-up of social media blogs in 2011.
Over the past year, the use of social media and blogging for academic purposes has continued to grow rapidly.
Here, Danielle Moran and Amy Mollett list a selection of their favourite guest posts from the blog, covering why academics might want to embrace social media, and how to measure this as impact. In 2011, we saw a growth in the use of social media as a tool for research and dissemination by academics and reseachers. Our most popular guest posts of 2011 investigate the possibilities that social media presents, yet academics’ use of such services such as 140 character microblog service Twitter, continue to spur a sharply divided debate. Here are a small selection of our most read social media blog posts from the last year. Welcome to Altmetric. PLoS Impact Explorer. [1203.4745] Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact.
[1202.2461] How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations. 12. An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop Evanston, IL • 21 June 2012 The program of the workshop is now available.
Keynotes Johan Bollen - Indiana University, BloomingtonGregg Gordon – Social Science Research Network About the Workshop. Search - #SPARC_binfield.