Capture Metrics
Captures track when end users bookmark, favorite, become a reader, become a watcher, etc.
Captures indicate that someone wants to come back to the work.
Captures are important because they are an early, leading indicator of future citations.
Below is a table of the metrics sources that PlumX uses for capture metrics.
Metrics as of November 11, 2020
| Metric | Source(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bookmarks | Delicious (historical only) | Number of times an artifact has been bookmarked |
| Favorites | Slideshare, SoundCloud, YouTube | The number of times the artifact has been marked as a favorite |
| Followers | GitHub | The number of times a person or artifact has been followed |
| Forks | Github | The number of times a repository has been forked |
| Readers | CiteULike (historical only), Goodreads, Mendeley, SSRN |
The number of people who have added the artifact to their library/briefcase |
| Exports/Saves | EBSCO (historical only), SSRN | This includes the number of times an artifact’s citation has been exported direct to bibliographic management tools or as file downloads, and the number of times an artifact’s citation/abstract and HTML full text (if available) have been saved, emailed or printed. |
| Subscribers | Vimeo, YouTube | The number of people who have subscribed for an update |
| Watchers | Github | The number of people watching the artifact for updates |
To see the changes we have made to our metrics go to our audit log.