Measure Your Research Impact: Article Level Metrics
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What are Article Level Metrics?
Article Level Metrics (ALMs) "provide a picture of how an individual article is being discussed, shared, and used" .
Altmetrics vs. Article-Level Metrics
"As adoption of Article-Level Metrics has increased, the term “Altmetrics” is sometimes used interchangeably with ALMs. It’s important to distinguish between two similar - but not synonymous - terms. ALMs are an attempt to measure impact at the article level. In doing so, ALMs draw from a variety of different data sources, some traditional (e.g., times cited) and some new (e.g., X posts/tweets, policy citations). The attempt to incorporate new data sources to measure the impact of something, whether that something is an article or a journal or an individual scholar, is what defines altmetrics. Altmetrics are about the data sources, not the level of aggregation. ALMs are about the incorporation of altmetrics and traditional indicators to define impact at the article level."
SPARC - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition - See more at: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/article-level-metrics/
Participating Platforms and Publishers
- Lagotto - Formerly PLOS ALMThe Lagotto application collects and aggregates the data from external sources where article activity is occurring. It was developed in 2009 as an open source application by PLOS. To date, the community of contributors to the application has rapidly grown as more publishers and other providers are implementing the system.
- PLOS Article Level Metrics WidgetWidget to display ALMs in any WordPress Blog
Public Library of Science ALMs
PLoS ALM's
PLoS ALMS
PLoS Article-Level Metrics Reports
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) Reports provides a comprehensive report of article-level metrics for articles published in PLOS journals. You choose which articles to include and this tool will create a report with metrics data and visualizations that you can download, save and share. Please note this this tool is only for articles published in PLOS journals.
Here are some of the metrics included in an ALM Report:
- Number of page views and downloads from PLOS and PubMed Central
- Times cited from CrossRef, PubMed Central and Scopus
- Saves to CiteULike and Mendeley
- Mentions on NatureBlogs, Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia
Instructions on using ALM Reports.