« We measure the impact of « altmetrics » field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Google-plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 2010- 2014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index, analogues to h-index. Across the deployed…
« The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Data Quality Code of Conduct, NISO RP-25-201X-3, one output of a multi-pronged, multi-phase project that aims to build trust in and adoption of new methods of assessing impact. Further draft outputs from two other…
« What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly engaging and activity-laden book serves to introduce readers to the fast-paced world of research metrics from the unique perspective of academic librarians and…
« (…) Over the past two years, we and our partners at the Open Syllabus Project (based at the American Assembly at Columbia) have collected more than a million syllabuses from university websites. We have also begun to extract some of their key components — their metadata…
« What academic research caught the public imagination in 2015? Altmetric today unveiled its annual Top 100 list of the most shared and discussed academic research of 2015. (…) »
« Ce MOOC a pour objectif de donner aux chercheurs, professionnels de la recherche en santé et sciences du vivant et futurs chercheurs français et francophones les éléments nécessaires pour s’adapter à l’évolution des pratiques de recherche en santé (de la gestion à la communication et à la diffusion de…
« The Internet changed totally and irreversibly the way the scholarly literature is published, assessed, disseminated, read, shared and cited. The peer review process, particularly, has gained, with the support of automated systems, greater efficiency, transparency and agility across the Web, even taking into account the disproportionate increase in…
» Last week, we announced the addition of article-level metrics to 360 Link. Today, we are happy to announce that this feature has also been added to the ProQuest platform. Here are the details:
Altmetrics help authors see the impact of their papers, books, and…
« The integration between PlumX and DSpace makes it simple for DSpace customers to get started quickly to have PlumX metrics, dashboards and analytic reports (…)
DSpace offers a function known as communities that allows users to divide their research into groups and hierarchies. These communities usually…
« Taylor & Francis Group today announced the addition of Altmetric data to Taylor & Francis Online and Cogent OA, enhancing the article metrics currently available on both journal platforms. Added to all journal articles published since January 2012, Altmetric data will offer users a more complete picture of…
