PLOS empowers researchers to engage with a variety of accessible altmetrics, and signals of rigorous research practice, to more effectively showcase articles' strengths…
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Alt-Metrics Engaging with article metrics: own your impact narrativeRead more
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Alt-Metrics Digital Identifiers Improve Recognition and Credit: ORCIDRead more
Connectivity and integrated data are moving ahead as the best minds in metadata, digital identifiers and networked discovery collaborate to ensure that…
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Alt-Metrics New NIH Biosketch Brings Opportunity for Change: PLOS Speaks with Dr. Bruce AlbertsRead more
There is an intense ongoing conversation in the scientific community on how best to determine the value of scholarly work, in reaction…
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Alt-Metrics Momentum for Article-Level Metrics: New UsesRead more
Reproduced here from the original June 11, 2014 PLOS Newsroom post The visibility of a research article extends beyond the journal in which it…
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Alt-Metrics Letter to the Editor of Science, by Elizabeth MarincolaRead more
The following ‘letter to the editor’ was submitted to Science October 4, 2013 and was published on Sciencemag.org December 5, 2013. _____________________________________________ John…
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Alt-Metrics Providing context to Article-Level MetricsRead more
In 2009, PLOS was one of the first publishers to place comprehensive performance indicators, called Article-Level Metrics (ALM), on every article leading…
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Alt-Metrics A mine of information – the PLOS Text Mining CollectionRead more
The growth of Open Access has increased the pool of digital information that is available for Text Mining. This relatively new interdisciplinary…
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Alt-Metrics Call for Papers: PLoS Text Mining CollectionRead more
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) seeks submissions in the broad field of text-mining research for a collection to be launched across…
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Alt-Metrics New data sources added to Article-Level MetricsRead more
In 2009, PLoS became the first publisher to add comprehensive usage and reach data to every published article so that the entire…
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Alt-Metrics openSNP wins PLoS/Mendeley Binary BattleRead more
Mendeley and PLoS are delighted to announce the winners of the Binary Battle, an innovation challenge to make research more open and…
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Alt-Metrics PLoS at Science Hack Day SF 2011Read more
The weekend of November 12, PLoS sponsored Science Hack Day (SF), an annual event bringing together up to 200 scientists (and citizen…
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Alt-Metrics Call for Scientific App IdeasRead more
Have a great idea for a scientific app but lack the coding skills to develop it? We’d like to hear it! Submit…