Academic Publishers Experiment With ‘Altmetrics’ to Track Reach and Impact - The Chronicle of Higher Education

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-23

Summary:

" ... One publisher that’s jumped in is the University of Michigan’s Michigan Publishing, which last year started a pilot project with Altmetric, a British company that scans blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other media outlets for mentions or citations of scholarly work. It then calculates an attention score, displayed as a circular badge called a 'donut' that appears at the top of a journal article. This gives publishers and authors a snapshot of how much impact that article has had online. Readers who click on the donut see details of the score broken down by how many users tweeted, posted to Facebook, blogged, or otherwise wrote about that article. It also provides a world map showing where the attention is coming from ..."

Link:

http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Publishers-Experiment/235785/?key=zRFtECq7tEIVCxScn6jiLa2DipgRMrtrJx0ja9JMKZJDYmp1aEhfNTFzbWVBZ3B6bHBSRV9IYm1DLWxJVTVSa0dXSUd1RkRUOXYw

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Date tagged:

03/23/2016, 09:22

Date published:

03/23/2016, 05:22