

The products have gained a lot of interest from large publishing and information companies: Plum Analytics was bought by EBSCO in January 2014, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBSCO Information Services and many publishers have begun publishing altmetric data on their sites.

Whereas ImpactStory ( ) enables users to create profiles based on their research outputs and shows the impact of those outputs. views, downloads), captures (bookmarks, favourites), mentions (reviews), social media (tweets), and citations (Scopus citation count).Īltmetric ( also collects data on the impact of journal articles, books, and datasets. The metrics are categorised as usage (e.g. Plum Analytics ( captures a wide variety of metrics about a wide range of research outputs, from datasets and videos to journal articles and books. The creation of standards and definitions for the usage of online resources through initiatives such as COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) ( play an essential role in ensuring that comparisons can be made between article level metrics for resources published by different publishers, but it has been the tapping into conversations that go on around research on social network sites such as Twitter that has gained most interest and has been the focus of a number of altmetric tools that were developed following the publication of the altmetrics manifesto in 2010 ( ). There are two complementary areas of growth in publication metrics: the creation of standards for the usage of online resources and capturing the referencing and conversations around online resources. These tools have gained widespread interest in many sectors, but speaking to Euan Adie (founder of ) and Mike Taylor (senior project manager for infometrics in Elsevier Research Metrics) the message is clear: there is still much work to be done in digging deeper into these metrics. However, the publishing of a wider range of research outputs on the web, and the growth in social networking sites, has created the possibility of a wide range of alternative or complementary metrics based on how the resources are used or referenced online, and a wide range of new tools and metrics are being developed. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.For a long time measures of research impact have revolved around the citations that published works received, a practice that has often drawn criticism for its bluntness and misuse (especially when measures such as the Journal Impact Factor have been used for the evaluation of researchers). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

