(Update: we now have an audit log as referenced in question Q5 below. The audit log can be found here. This post and the audit log have been updated as of October 15, 2018.) We’ve enjoyed working with NISO on the NISO Altmetrics Initiative since it began in June of 2013. Read More
On January 12, 2016, President Obama held his final State of the Union speech. In this speech he committed the United States to a “cancer moonshot.” Click here to view an excerpt of that part of the speech from CNN. Read More
by Stephan Buettgen, Director Analytic Products Sales Europe, Plum Analytics I was fortunate enough to attend the 2016 ISMPP Europe Meeting this week in London. (ISMPP stands for International Society of Medical Publication Professionals.) It was a great event where Plum Analytics had the chance to reconnect with the medical and pharmaceutical community, Read More
If your New Year’s resolution was to learn a bit more about research metrics, we’re here to help. Meaningful Metrics The book Meaningful Metrics by Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt was recently made available in open access and is 251 pages chock full of background reading about bibliometrics, Read More
Do academics today have to participate actively in social media to stay relevant? While some are skeptical of the value of metrics like blog mentions, tweets and facebook likes being used to measure academic impact, it’s undeniable that academic conversations are increasingly moving online. Read More
This post originally appeared on the 2:AM Conference blog as a guest blog from Andrea Michalek, the Co-Founder and President of Plum Analytics. Andrea shares her thoughts about the current state of altmetrics and opportunities for the future.Read More
Presenting a guest post from Steve Giannoni, Director of Sales (Academic & Govt) UK & Ireland, EBSCO Information Services, on his thoughts on the library’s role with the research office. Having spent almost 10 years of my EBSCO-life working predominantly with Academic Libraries, Read More
This was the title of a recent blog post on the BioMedCentral blog. The authors, talk about the history of academic publishing, the massive changes that have taken place in the industry, and what the future may hold. Read More