From: Bonnie Zavon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:27:42 -0500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HighWire incorporates article-level metrics with ImpactStory
PALO ALTO, CA – 18 December 2012 -- HighWire Press is pleased to announce it
has entered into a strategic collaboration with ImpactStory, a researcher
led, non-profit organization with a drive to help redefine the impact of
research articles.
Article level metrics monitor the conversations around an article, as a
complement to citation reports which measure a journal’s overall impact.
ImpactStory aggregates impact data – the number of times an article is
accessed and mentioned in editorials, news, tweets and blogs, as well as
bookmarked, favorited, and recommended, in addition to those cited by
another research paper, from sources such as CrossRef, Mendeley, and PubMed.
“People bookmark and download research articles for a reason,” says Jason
Priem, PhD student and co-founder of ImpactStory, who coined the term
altmetrics. “Articles that provoke interesting discussions amongst fellow
scientists may or may not get cited a lot, but they are still providing
important feedback and quality indicators. Additionally, activity in venues
like Wikipedia, Twitter, and Delicious provide evidence of broader impact of
articles that are increasingly important to research funders.”
“As a publisher we believe our role on the open web is to help authors
increase the surface area of their research and to uncover interesting
interactions with that research,” said Ian Mulvany, Head of Technology,
eLife. “Being able to provide article-level metrics and indicators of these
interactions is a critical piece, and we are delighted to be working with
HighWire and ImpactStory to do that.”
As part of the collaboration with ImpactStory, HighWire will manage the
relationship on behalf of the participating publishers on the HighWire Open
Platform, registering articles and displaying these metrics on their online
journal and book sites.
According to Tom Rump, Managing Director at HighWire, “Our strategy is to
continually embrace the future of electronic publishing by supporting
technology that provides insight into furthering the research communication
process.”
More news and complete story: http://highwire.stanford.edu/news/
About HighWire
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides
the latest in digital content development and hosting solutions to the
scholarly community through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. A
division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire partners with
influential societies, university presses, and other independent publishers,
sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and producing definitive online
versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and
other scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied
a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content to the widest
possible audience, facilitating the research communication process to meet
the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile readers.
highwire.stanford.edu
Contact: [log in to unmask] Twitter: @highwirepress
About ImpactStory
ImpactStory is a web service that makes it quick and easy to view the impact
of a wide range of research output. ImpactStory goes beyond traditional
measurements of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much
broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types.
Researchers can view metrics on collections of their research objects, and
publishers can display metrics on their product pages.
http://impactstory.org
Contact: [log in to unmask] or @imactstory on Twitter.
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