« Over the past six years, since the publication of the Altmetrics manifesto, altmetrics have matured and greatly expanded. Applications are available to gather and display altmetrics data on articles and books alike, either from freestanding companies or from large publishing houses. But to what extent are…
« Research libraries assist scholars in demonstrating the value of their scholarly output through citation metrics and other measures. As the forms of scholarly communication change, so do the metrics used for assessing them. The services libraries offer must evolve in concert with these changes. This talk will provide…
« As part of the broader Open Science agenda of the European Commission an expert group on “altmetrics” has been formed. This group has a remit to consider how indicators of research performance can be used effectively to enhance the strategic goals of the commission and the risks and…
« You’re probably already familiar with the Altmetric score (that handy number seen inside an Altmetric “donut”). The score is a weighted count of all of the mentions Altmetric has tracked for an individual research output, and is designed as an indicator of the amount and reach of the attention…
« ScienceOpen and Altmetric are pleased to co-host a webinar entitled “The future of altmetrics”. 04 July 2016 – 3pm BST/4pm CEST. (…)
For this one-hour long webinar, we have a fantastic panel of expert speakers for you!
James Wilsdon of Sheffield University…« (…) From today all research outputs deposited on figshare that have received attention online will display Altmetric Badges. The attention data for datasets, videos, images, code and other alternative research outputs will be presented within the Figshare platform, and users will be able to access a collated record…
« (…)The book looks at how altmetrics came about and their connection back to the first rumblings of the social web at the start of this century. It also looks at traditional research metrics and the wider use of bibliometrics before moving to the present day and tools like…
« Altmetric today announce the launch of Altmetric Badges for Books, enabling publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and it’s individual chapters have received.
Now available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book Number),…
« Impactstory est une organisation sans but lucratif qui aide les scientifiques à connaître où leurs recherches sont citées, partagées et bien plus.
Une nouvelle version a été mise en ligne le 8 avril 2016. Impacstory partage maintenant ses indicateurs en trois : le Buzz , l’engagement et…
« Last week, we kicked off a series interviewing some of the top ‘open scientists’ by interviewing Dr. Joanne Kamens of Addgene, and had a look at some of the great work she’d been doing in promoting a culture of data sharing, and equal opportunity for researchers.…
