Accessing article level metrics

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…

Social media in ecology – wrapup from an ESA 2012 workshop

Sandra Chung (@sandramchung) and Jacquelyn Gill (@jacquelyngill) led a workshop at the Ecological of Society Meeting in Portland, OR on social media titled “Social Media for Collaboration, Outreach and Impact”. Sandra and Jacquelyn talked mostly about how to use Twitter, the de facto social media tool these days. Here are the slides from their talk. There…