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Faculty Support: Research and Publishing

Altmetrics

Altmetrics is a broad measure of the influence of a scholar's work.  It categorizes scholarly and non-scholarly use.  Traditional bibliometrics measures frequency of scholarly citation.

Categories of altmetrics include scholarly activity (downloads, views, library holdings, etc.), scholarly commentary (peer review recommendations, blog posts, Wikipedia entries, book reviews, etc.), social activity (mentions or shares on Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit), and mass media (discussion on popular news or magazine websites).

Journal Articles:

Publisher websites frequently list metrics, including the number of times an article has been downloaded:

  • Sage Journals  - click the link for "Article Metrics" .- click the link for "Article Metrics" from within the article.
  • Taylor & Francis Online - click the link for metrics from within the article. 
  • Wiley Online Library - click the information link for additional journal metrics; citations are listed from within the article. 
  • The Web of Science  - click the link for citations from within the article.

Books:

  • Open Syllabus Project - search over one million syllabi to see if your book is mentioned.
  • Springer - click SpringerLink from within the article for eBook downloads, citations, and social media mentions. 

Scholarly Social Networking Sites:

  • Academia.edu - provides metrics for views of your work by other researchers. Click on Analytics from within the article.
  • Research Gate - provides metrics for views by other researchers as well as the number of citations from other researchers on ResearchGate.

Scholarly Commentary:

  • Publons - free access to online peer reviews (limited; not all journals permit publication of their peer reviews)
  • F1000 - Publishers of articles in F1000 research open access journal have access to reviewers' comments (fee based service)  https://f1000research.com.  Click reviews from within the article.