Abstract
Scholars have moved their publications onto the web, and the ongoing conversation around the outputs of research increasingly takes place there. Beyond the research community itself, scholarly information has an impact on other professionals, as well as on the general public. Traditional measures do not reflect these wider impacts. The mission of COUNTER is to set and monitor global standards for the measurement of online usage of content. Usage is an important measure of the impact and value of publications, and as such has a role in altmetrics. Usage can be reported at the individual item and individual researcher level and aggregated to the journal or institution level. PIRUS and Usage Factor are two COUNTER-lead initiatives that are based on this approach, with the potential to provide useful altmetrics.
Highlights
The Altmetrics Manifesto[1] states that ‘No one can read everything
We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped ... the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem
Beyond the research community itself, scholarly information has an impact on other professionals, as well as on the general public
Summary
The Altmetrics Manifesto[1] states that ‘No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped ... the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. The growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. Traditional filters for scholarly literature have focused on peer review and citation-based measures. These do not reflect the range of formats and channels by which the outputs of scholarly research are disseminated and absorbed. The channels used by authors to reach their readership have expanded Scholars have moved their publications onto the web, and the ongoing conversation around the outputs of research increasingly takes place through social media. Traditional measures do not reflect these wider impacts, which are increasingly important as the public and private funders of research seek to demonstrate the contribution that the research they fund makes to society as a whole
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