Altmetric.com - making article level metrics easy - Digital Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-06-22

Summary:

“The following post comes from Euan Adie, founder of Altmetric... We've got a simple sounding mission at Altmetric - to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature. If I'm honest the main reason I started working on the system is because I think aggregating scholarly metadata is cool (what? No, I don't get out much). You should care about it too though: [1] If you're a scientist you should have a quick and easy way to see which papers your peers are talking about and where. [2] If you're an author you should be able to identify and respond to comments about your work. [3] If you're a patient you should be able to put any relevant research you find in context. [4] If you're an editor you should be able to track the trends and hot topics in your field of interest. [5] If you're a publisher you should be able to curate and host the conversation around the content you publish and make it available to your readers. Altmetric is designed to help with all of above... Here's how it works. Altmetric tracks three types of data sources: [1] Social media like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and blogs [2] Traditional media - both mainstream (The Guardian, New York Times) and science specific (New Scientist, Scientific American). Many non-english language titles are covered.  [3] Online reference managers like Mendeley and CiteULike We pull out mentions of scholarly articles or datasets from these data streams, aggregate them, clean them up and then normalise all the resulting data - we track twenty thousand unique papers a week,but some people link to the PubMed abstract, some to the publisher site, some to dx.doi.org, etc. - before making it available to researchers and publishers though an API, embeddable badges and an analytics tool called the Explorer. You check out our badges on sites like Biomedcentral, Frontiers or Scopus and in apps like Utopia Docs. The free bookmarklet fetches and displays data from the Altmetric database for whatever article you're currently viewing. It usually needs a DOI to work, so if it doesn't find out automatically try selecting one on the page before hitting the button. The Explorer is a paid product and aimed primary at editors, press officers and bibliometrics researchers. It allows you answer questions like ‘what neurology papers have researchers been sharing this week?’"

Link:

http://www.digital-science.com/blog/posts/altmetric-com-making-article-level-metrics-easy

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

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

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oa.new oa.pubmed oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.google oa.social_media oa.twitter oa.lay oa.bmc oa.indexing oa.facebook oa.altmetrics oa.blogs oa.media oa.dois oa.mendeley oa.scopus oa.citeulike oa.altmetrics.com oa.pinterest oa.altmetric.com oa.metrics

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

06/22/2012, 22:54

Date published:

06/22/2012, 23:55