Turning the page on altmetrics: Trends across publishers
Talk by Jean Liu, Product Development Manager (Altmetric) -- first presented at the "Emerging Tools and Metrics in the Book Impact Space" event hosted by Springer Nature on 24 January 2017 in King's Cross, London.
limited number of news stories and press releases 2013 2015 Clinical trial study records and webpages (URLs) Altmetric collaborated with Springer on “Bookmetrix” for Springer books. 2016 Altmetric launched Badges for Books on Routledge Handbooks Online. More books from Google Books and a wider range of academic publishers A Brief History of Altmetric for Books
topics. Articles take less time to write, review, and publish. Academic Books Longer, in-depth, expert analyses and reviews of specific topics. Books take longer to write, edit, and publish. The differences matter
3. Blogs 4. Wikipedia 5. Peer review platforms TOP SOURCES OF ATTENTION Rankings are based on statistics collected between 1 Jan 2015 – 1 Jan 2017 for “article” and “book” outputs in the Altmetric database. Academic Books 1. Social media (Twitter & Facebook) 2. News 3. Blogs 4. Course syllabi 5. Wikipedia TOP SOURCES OF ATTENTION The attention trends are different 367,400 mentions 48,123 books 7.6 mentions/book 15,515,434 mentions 1,992,796 articles 7.8 mentions/article
Press Cengage Learning SAGE Routledge Books: Visible educational influence Syllabi mentions from Open Syllabus Project provide an early signal of educational attention.
with their books (and chapters) after publication. Marketing teams can better understand their audiences and boost their outreach efforts through online channels. Commissioning editors can identify potential authors or topics of interest for future book projects.
• Encouraging wider identifier use • Understanding differences between disciplines • Supporting even more publishers Challenges and Opportunities • Tracking more book-specific attention channels • Enhancing the Altmetric Explorer for Publishers, so they can do more with their book altmetrics CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES