How can journal editors use Altmetric data? โ€“ The Source

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-08-31

Summary:

" ... One of the big advantages of the data is that you can see how conversations around research develop in real time; the majority of the online attention we see for an article is posted in the first couple of weeks after publication. For example, the information on the left hand side of this details page tells us that this article (about the benefits of green tea) has been mentioned in a wide range of sources, including mainstream news sources, blogs, Twitter, Sina Weibo, Youtube and Reddit. The article also has 51 Mendeley readers, which suggests it has proved popular amongst users of academic reference managers, as well as users of general social media platforms. You can click through to the original mentions to read the news stories and blog posts about an article, view the profiles of people who have shared the article on social media, and potentially engage with them. Using the interactive maps on the Summary Tab, you can view and monitor the global reach of an article. For example, you can see that this article has accumulated Mendeley readers from the US, the UK and Germany. If you wanted to delve even further into this data, you could view counts of the readers by professional status and by discipline (see screenshot below) ..."

Link:

http://www.springersource.com/how-can-journal-editors-use-altmetric-data/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.impact oa.altmetric.com oa.altmetrics oa.metrics

Date tagged:

08/31/2015, 21:35

Date published:

08/31/2015, 17:35