Author Archives: Tuija Sonkkila
Mining REF2014 impact case studies
The British 2014 Research Excellence Framework is a landmark in recent European academic life, no matter from what angle you look at it. One of its novelties was Impact Case Studies, a collection of impressive 6,975 items which showcase how … Continue reading
Wikipedia outreach by field of science
Since the previous posting, the Scholarly Article Citation dataset on Figshare has been upgraded to include also DOIs. Great! I’d imagine that unlike with PMIDs, there’d be more coverage from Aalto with DOIs. Like in all altmetrics exercises so far, … Continue reading
Cited in Wikipedia
In a recent blog posting Altmetric announced that they have added Wikipedia to their sources. Earlier this month, WikiResearch tweeted about a CC0-licensed dataset upload to Figshare, Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia. The dataset is a 35+ MB file of … Continue reading
Bot
Twitter bots is something I like a lot. Up until now, I haven’t ventured into making one myself, which is a bit unfortunate because earlier, the process of getting an R/W access for a bot was much easier. Anyway, thanks … Continue reading
Journal Metrics by Scopus
Some days ago, William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, tweeted about the availability of the latest Journal Metrics. The experimental web application of (alt)metrics on our publications since 2007 includes now Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2013 … Continue reading
On game articles and megajournals
On a hot work day like this, you need to take a relaxing break from time to time. While at it, why not play with the altmetrics web app? For example, you might ask yourself: are there any publications on … Continue reading
Open Access items and altmetrics
Lib4RI aka libraries of the four research institutes of the ETH-Domain announced some days ago that they have made a list of all Open Access journals included in Science Citation Index Expanded 2013 (SCIE). Nice work! Matching is done against … Continue reading
Software, slides, videos, e-prints and articles
There are now three separate and partly overlapping views on (alt)metrics of Aalto University research outputs, published roughly during the last decade. Majority is from recent years, but few date back to early 2000. The variety and incompleteness reflects the … Continue reading
Altmetrics from different angles
As of this week, there are exactly 900 articles published by Aalto University since 2007 recorded by Web of Science of Thomson Reuters, having a DOI, and with some altmetrics aggregated by Altmetric. With this data at hand, I made … Continue reading
Status update
Just came here to mention briefly that now the new altmetrics app has also a tab for a ggvis graph. I made it to show the comparison between the number of authors and Web of Science citations by Thomson Reuters. … Continue reading
