« On July 31, Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics President and co-founder, presented an hour-long webinar about altmetrics in general and PlumX, our research impact metrics dashboard, in particular (…) »
« Taylor & Francis recently published their annual Open Access Survey. This is a survey they conducted of the authors they published during 2012 (…)
What interested us about the survey were the responses concerning usage statistics.
« …The criteria for inclusion are very simple: The repositories should have their own web domain or subdomain and include at least peer-reviewed papers to be considered (services that contain only archives, databanks or learning objects are not ranked).
Although there is a paper describing the…
« The rapidly evolving academic research and publishing community is seeing many digital developments, one of which is being compared to « the Wild West. » The altmetric movement proposed an alternative to the popular journal impact factor and personal citation indices such as the h-index. From this new frontier, Euan…
« … Summary
In the first phase of the NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Project (July 2013 through June 2014), three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted. The goal was to collect input from all relevant stakeholder groups, summarize the discussion in this white paper, and identify…
« John Wiley & Sons today announced the addition of Altmetric data to its journal program. Following the success of a six-month pilot on Wiley Open Access titles in 2013, the service will be available for all journals by the end of July (…) »
« … Although alternative metrics (altmetrics) are still in their infancy, the concept of using non-traditional measures to assess research impact has gained significant traction from scholarly publishers over the past two years. More recently, there has been interest amongst librarians and repository managers in integrating rich qualitative and quantitative…
« PLOS Collections (1) is a specific section of the Public Library of Science (PLOS) initiative which hosts collections of articles which have been specially selected by editors working at PLOS, one of the leaders in the Open Access (OA) movement in academic publishing (…)
A previous…
« Metrics from Plum™ Analytics will now include usage statistics for articles and books that are available from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) databases and EBSCO Discovery Service. The article-level data from these databases will allow Plum Analytics’ product PlumX to provide usage statistics on articles…
