what is alt metrics

1. What is ?
Pushkar Tripathi , Monty Mondal,
Kumari Anamika , Taniya Sharma,
Sarvesh Singh.

2. Altmetrics are Metrics and Qualitative Data that are
complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics.
They can include peer reviews on Faculty of 1000,
citations on Wikipedia and in public policy documents,
discussions on research blogs, mainstream media
coverage, bookmarks on reference managers like
Mendeley, and mentions on social networks such as
Twitter.
contd…

3. Altmetrics can tell us a lot about how
often journal articles and other scholarly
outputs like datasets are discussed and
used around the world. For that reason,
altmetrics have been incorporated into
researchers’ websites, institutional
repositories, journal websites, and more.

4. What is ?
To get started go to :
https://impactstory.org/

5. IMPACTSTORY is an open-source website
that helps researchers explore and share the
online impact of their research.
By helping researchers tell data-driven stories
about their work and helping to build a new
scholarly reward system that values and
encourages web-native scholarship. They’re
funded by the National Science Foundation
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and
incorporated as a nonprofit corporation.

6. How to use it ?
Researchers can create an IMPACTSTORY
profile and upload publications to the site by :
Importing citations and more from
GoogleScholar, ORCID, Figshare, GitHub,
Slideshare and other sources
Entering a PMID, digital object identifier (DOI)
or URL

7. WHO IS IMPACTSTORY FOR ?
Researchers
Research
Groups
Funders
Repositories
Everyone

8. Features :
Easier import to Impactstory, and
keeping user’s profile more up-to-date.
Uploading Open Access versions of
user’s papers directly to Impactstory
and its ability to now track pageview
and download counts for contents.
Ability to customize the profile’s
appearance and to prioritize content
and choose what people can see on
your Impactstory profile.

9. Citations, Downloads and Page Views, and
Altmetrics for a broad array of web-native research
products, in a profile format designed to meet the
needs of individual researchers.
The metrics provided by IMPACTSTORY can be used
by researchers who want to know how many times
their work has been downloaded and shared and also
research funders who are interested in the impact of
research beyond only considering citations to journal
articles

10. IMPACTSTORY WEBPAGE - OVERVIEW

11. Achievement Menu on
IMPACTSTORY

12. CREATING COLLECTION

13. COLLECTION IN IMPACTSTORY’S PAGE

14. SOURCES:
Altmetric.com , CiteULike, Slideshare,
Wikipedia.
• To see more on how ImpactStory should
and shouldn’t be used = see the FAQs:
http://impactstory.org/faq#toc_3_3
• To download this step by step guide,
visit:
http://www.slideshare.net/SarahG_SS/
using-impactstory-an- introduction

15. For more information and to
keep up to date with the latest
on ImpactStory
See the FAQ page :
http://www.impactstory.org/faq
• Find out more about the team behind
ImpactStory :
http://www.impactstory.org/about
• Follow the blog:
http://blog.impactstory.org/
• Follow ImpactStory on Twitter:
@ImpactStory