Enhancing article visibility and

impact

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Interoperability

•Link from one to the other.

•Group and relate linked information across platforms and across the Web.

Open

Visibility

•Index

•Measure

•CV’s

•Citations

Visibility

•Being seen - indexes

•Being valued/ ranked - metrics

Discovery Services (indexes)

Primo Central, EBSCO EDS, Summon, WorldCat.

SciELO Citation Index

Being seen

Being valued

Metrics

Journal Impact•By citations, in journals that meet

selected criteria

•Web of Science

• SciELO Citation Index

•Scopus

•Bibliometrics

Article Level Attention •By references and

recommendations made amongst colleagues

• social networks

• dynamic, almost instantaneous

• any article or entity, not just selected ones as in classic citation based systems.

•Alternate Metrics - complementary

Article Level Attention

altmetric.com

www.plumanalytics.com - PlumX

impactstory.org

almreports.plos.org

AudienceDocument

typesComments API

Publisher,Individual researcher,

libraries, authors.

All journals(DOI)

Very visualSimple to understand.

Online, immediate √

IndividualFor researchers,

research groups and funders

Journals, datasets, software, etc.

Broad view.Online, immediate. √

Funder, institution, author

PLoS JournalsOnline, immediate

Reports a many levels. √

Academic, special libraries, research

support offices

Journals, datasets, software, etc.

Institutional data must be uploaded, then analyzed to

produce results. √

altmetric.com

PLOS Individual article

•PLOS ALM Reports

U. of Pittsburgh

PlumX

Gaming the system

•Always have to monitor, in any system

•Sockpuppets, Social bots and so on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sock_puppets.jpg

•Mendeley and Mendeley Institutional Edition

•Reader attention - most read articles in a group or institution

Article Level Attention

Mendeley Platform

Reference manager Altmetrics + real usage of library resources

CV / Profiles of Authors

Citations and Citation

Management

•Number of citations; citation linking

• Web of Science, SciELO Citation Index, Scopus

• Google Scholar

• Academic Search

Citation Managers & Sharing

Recommender Systems

(aggregating demand)• bX Recommender Service (Ex-Libris)

•Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) - Mendeley Suggest

• CiteULike Recommendations (Springer)

• Readcube

Enhancing article visibility and

impact

www.nicholascopconsulting.com