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Article Level Metrics: A research impact footprint

Article Level Metrics: A research impact footprint

Slides from my presentation at the PLoS reception during ASM 2012 in San Francisco.

Martin Fenner

June 18, 2012
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  1. Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a comprehensive and multi- dimensional suite

    of transparent and established metrics at the article level. http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alm-info/
  2. altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based

    on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. http://altmetrics.org/about/
  3. Post-publication peer review is the process whereby scientific studies are

    absorbed into the body of knowledge. Richard Smith http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/04/06/ richard-smith-what-is-post-publication- peer-review/
  4. Information overload. It‘s not filter failure, it is a discovery

    deficit. Cameron Neylon http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/ its-not-filter-failure-its-a-discovery-deficit
  5. The PLoS ALM project was started in 2009 and tracks

    usage, citations and the social web activity for all PLoS articles.
  6. Today I want to focus on future ALM developments. I

    will start with some ideas and hope for a great discussion.
  7. Generate context for ALM by comparing the numbers to similar

    articles – e.g. from the same subject category.
  8. The attention received by an article can be evaluated and

    used both by authors and the journal for improvements.
  9. Equally important, help with the adoption of ALM by other

    journals, institutions and funders.
  10. This presentation can be copied and distributed provided that proper

    credit is given. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.