Rising Tides & the Open Horizon for ALM
With support from the Sloan Foundation, PLOS hosted the second annual ALM workshop on Oct 10-12, 2013. Presentation slides and links to post-workshop write-ups from the community have been linked on...
View ArticleALM Data Challenge: Metrics for a Standard Set of DOIs
As part of the ALM workshop described in more detail in the previous post we also met for an ALM Data Challenge which took place in the PLOS offices on October 12. Many readers are probably familiar...
View ArticleEvaluating Impact: What’s your number?
What’s your number? This Saturday, we (MF) will be addressing this very question at the SpotOn London conference with Marie Boran, David Colquhoun, Jean Liu and Stephen Curry. In advance of the...
View ArticleCreative Commons for Science: Interview with Puneet Kishor
Creative Commons provides copyright licenses to help standardize and simplify the sharing of scientific content and other creative works. PLOS applies the Creative Commons attribution license to all...
View ArticleResearch findings: going deeper than the article
We have recently released two new Article-Level Metrics (ALM) data sources: Europe PMC Database Citations and DataCite. The data from both sources are displayed on the metrics tab of PLOS articles, are...
View ArticleOne Step Closer to Article-Level Metrics openly available for all Scholarly...
Since PLOS embarked on the Article-Level Metrics (ALM) work in 2009, we have always imagined a future in which ALMs would be freely available regardless of publisher. Metrics would be compiled to...
View ArticleDisambiguation with ORCID at PLOS
Here at PLOS, linking authors and publications continues to be a persistent problem. Trying to find that one paper by “John Kim” that you wanted to reference? The prospect of wading through numerous...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Missing ALM
What is ten years old and has 1.2 billion interactions a day? No, it’s not the Large Hadron Collider. Nor is it a philosophical riddle, but rather a commonly known fact in the tech world (news here)....
View ArticleALM, the Research of Research – Recent Developments
Article-Level Metrics (ALM) capture a broad spectrum of activity on research articles, offering a window into how researchers engage with scientific findings. We are beginning to understand what these...
View ArticleOpen Source for Open Metrics
The scientific community is increasingly recognizing how the open science enterprise critically relies on access to scientific tooling. John Willinsky, Stanford scholar and Director of the Public...
View ArticleLessons learned developing scholarly open source software
Earlier this week we released version 3.8 of the Lagotto open source software (migrating the software to version 4 of the Rails framework). Lagotto is software that tracks events (views, saves,...
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