Tag Archives: Altmetric

Open landscape

In his recent blog posting Understanding the implications of Open Citations – how far along are we?, Aaron Tay from Singapore Management University gives a compact and clear overview on open citations. As Tay rightly notes, With the recent interest … Continue reading

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One year makes a (small) difference

Time goes by, publications get attention, metrics accrue. Or do they? To find out what happens locally in small scale and in a short time frame, in one year, I re-queried the Altmetric API and WoS for our items at … Continue reading

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Policy sources and impact

Since some time already, Altmeric has harvested information on how much various policy and guidance documents have been citing research publications. The way they do it is mainly by text-mining the References section of PDF documents, and verifying results against … Continue reading

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Towards more automation (and better quality)

Few weeks ago, CSC-IT Center for Science opened the much awaited VIRTA REST API for publications (page in Finnish). VIRTA is the Finnish higher education achievement register, a tool to be utilized in the authoritative data harvesting in the way … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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New take in recent (alt)metrics

Since November last year, quite a lot has been going on in altmetrics and various tools supporting their use. Of course, new research articles has been authored and published, too. A while ago, RStudio launched ShinyApps.io, a hosted version of … Continue reading

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