Altmetric in 2012: Year-End Review | Altmetric.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-12-20

Summary:

"As 2012 draws to a close, the time has come to reflect on what has been an exciting first year for Altmetric. Though founded in the middle of 2011, we released our first products – the free bookmarklet, the Altmetric Explorer, and our API – in February. Altmetric started off as a side project and ended up as a start-up bootstrapped by an app competition, some great feedback from our early users, and kind support from Digital Science, who later went on to make a formal investment. In the blog post accompanying the Digital Science press release in June, the mission of Altmetric was made clear: we aim 'to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature' ... The Altmetric API permits alt-metrics about articles to be fetched for use in apps and other projects. All of our own products (the embeddable badges included) use the API, which currently serves around 7 million requests a month.  This year saw Altmetric integrated with several exciting scientific web-based services, including Symplectic Elements, ReadcubeUtopia DocsSciCombinator (read our introductory post about it), rOpenSci, and most recently, Ex Libris Primo (see the Ex Libris Initiatives blog post about the addition of Altmetric). We did some integration work ourselves as well, creating a third-party app that sits in the sidebar of article pages in Scopus.  We’ve also made the occasional data dump available; see Tony Hirst’s 'science literati' visualization and James Cheshire’s Mapping Academic Tweets graphics for some cool uses of these.  Many of us come from STM publishing backgrounds, and offering useful services to publishers remains our core focus. BioMed Central were the first to experiment with using Altmetric data on their site and were followed by Libertas AcademicaQScienceNature Publishing Group,Cambridge University Press, and several others.  Our other offerings cater to the needs of various groups, including individual researchers and librarians. For researchers, the free bookmarklet allows individual article level metrics to be viewed, providing an instant view of the level of public engagement with scholarly work. All of our data is free for institutional repositories (just let us know if you’d like details!) and access to the Altmetric Explorer by individual librarians is also free..."

Link:

http://altmetric.com/blog/altmetric-in-2012-year-end-review/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.green oa.libraries oa.impact oa.librarians oa.apis oa.altmetric.com oa.altmetrics oa.metrics oa.repositories oa.data.visualizations

Date tagged:

12/20/2012, 08:38

Date published:

12/20/2012, 03:38