John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has launched a trial of Altmetric, a service
that tracks and measures the impact of scholarly articles and datasets
on both traditional and social media. The six month trial will run on a
number of subscription and open access journals published by Wiley
including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, BJU International,
Brain and Behavior, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and EMBO Molecular
Medicine.
As part of the trial Altmetric will track social media sites like
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, blogs, newspapers, magazines and
online reference managers like Mendeley and CiteULike for mentions of
scholarly articles published in the journals included in the trial.
Altmetric will create and display a score for each article measuring the
quality and quantity of attention that the particular article has
received. The Altmetric score is based on three main factors: the number
of individuals mentioning a paper, where the mentions occurred and how
often the author of each mention talks about the article.
Article level metrics are emerging as important tools to quantify how
individual articles are shared, used and discussed. These are being used
in conjunction with more traditional metrics focused on long-term impact
of a collection of articles found in a journal based on the number of
citations.
“We’re pleased to be working with Altmetric,” said Rachel Burley, Vice
President and Director, Open Access, Wiley. “The pilot will allow us to
understand the value of alternative metrics to our authors and users and
how those metrics are used.”
“Our journal publishes articles that are among the most highly accessed
and cited in scientific research,” said Dr. Peter Gregory, Editor in
Chief, Advanced Materials. “We want to provide readers with access to
our research through all channels, with authors enjoying a prominent
social media presence and excellent coverage in the global news and
science media. It will be interesting to review the Altmetric data as it
becomes available to better quantify journal article impact.”
About Altmetric:
Altmetric is a system that tracks the attention that scholarly articles
and datasets receive online. It does this by pulling in data from three
main sources; Social media like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest
and blogs, Traditional media and Online reference managers like Mendeley
and CiteULike.
Altmetric cleans up and normalizes the data from these sources then
makes it available for analysis. A key difference between Altmetric and
other social media monitoring services is that Altmetric will
disambiguate links to articles: it knows that even though some tweets
might link to a PubMed abstract, newspapers to the publisher's site and
blog posts to a dx.doi.org link they're all talking about the same paper.
URL: http://altmetric.uservoice.com/
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