Tracking the uptake of primary articles in the scientific literature via the social media is now widely accepted as a valid measure of the value of our work. In an earlier blog post we presented some data on article level metrics (ALMs: altmetrics) of Journal of Ecology articles from 2012. We are pleased that readers…
As we move into the second century of publishing Journal of Ecology, it’s a good time to see how the Journal fared in its 100th year. With this in mind, we compared uptake of the 150 papers published in the Centenary volume 100 in 2012. To make it interesting, we look at citations as they…
Altmetrics are catching a head of steam in science, but are still not widely used. What are they? Jason Priem, who coined the term “altmetrics”, on almetrics.org defines almetrics as “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. Find out more here and here and here. TotalImpact is a project…
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