Articles with “extenders” get more than twice as many views
Plain language summaries of publications and clinical trial protocols with extenders read 144% more times, says study
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Digital Science relaunches scientometric program
Access to Altmetric and Dimensions data is now boosted with Dimensions on BigQuery for researchers in the scientometrics field
COUNTER launches education programme
Offering comes in response to requests from community for more in-depth training
Who’s afraid of open infrastructures?
Joanna Ball, Yvonne Campfens and Tasha Mellins-Cohen underline the importance of non-profit infrastructure and standards bodies
CIHR chooses Digital Science to support health discovery in Canada
Agency signs single-year deal to utilise Altmetric Explorer for Institutions and Dimensions Analytics
COUNTER: more than just subscription metrics
Twenty years after its launch, the latest update to the COUNTER Code of Practice is about to go live
COUNTER announces community consultation
First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance
The challenge of measuring scholarly communication
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
The future of evaluative metrics
Gali Halevi discusses the impact of new publishing outlets and formats
Citations are more than just a number
Citations are much more than just a number or a metric used to price journal subscriptions or APCs, writes Josh Nicholson
Journal Citation Reports 2021 published by Clarivate
Report covers 20,000 journals from 113 countries across five continents and 254 research categories
New metric ‘leverages opinions of 8,000 experts’
Faculty Opinions Score designed to be an early indicator of an article’s future impact