Presentation was held by Tobias Arbarbanell and Sandra Hausmann @ Social Media and Webanalytics Innovation Conference on April 30th 2015 in San Francisco #DataSocial:
Abstract
Frontiers is a community-rooted-open-access publisher that is building the ultimate Open Science platform geared towards the needs of researchers and academic organizations in the 21st century. With more than 200,000 of the top scientist on board, Frontiers belongs to the top 5 open access publishers worldwide.
Loop, the Frontiers social network for academics, is specifically designed to boost the reach and the impact of the researcher’s publications. In this session we will explore how our impact analytics allow our users to immediately and accurately assess the reach and growing influence of their work within and beyond the research community.
2. Open access publisher and research network
Founded in 2007 by EPFL neuroscientists
Henry Markram & Kamila Markram
Headquartered at the Innovation Square of
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland
ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in
Publishing 2014
www.frontiersin.org
3. Our grand vision is to build an Open Science
Platform that empowers researchers in their
daily work and where everybody has equal
opportunity to seek, share and generate
knowledge.
22. We can do better:
Welcome to Article Level Metrics!
23. Article Level Metrics
Frontiers has pioneered article level metrics based on web
and social analytics since 2008.
Now several other publishers are joining this direction.
Together we are disrupting the old limitation of only
citation based metrics.
25. • Available earlier
• Multiple metrics address different types of engagement
• Quantifiable
Article Level Metrics - Benefits
26. • Available earlier
• Multiple metrics address different types of engagement
• Quantifiable
We can do even better !
Maximizing impact for researchers:
Article Level Metrics - Benefits