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Ernesto Priego takes a quick look at the concept of digital opportunity, some research on the uptake of information ICTs in Africa and Altmetric details of two articles on Africa we located through the Altmetric Explorer. Read More

A loaded conversation For this week’s Interactions, I took a peek at a particularly expansive island of conversation connected to a recent perspective piece in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Stanford University population biologists Paul R. Ehrlich (see his faculty webpage) and Anne H. Ehrlich. Grimly titled “Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?”, this perspective paper described the authors’ views on the potential causes of human decline. The authors also provided their recommendations on how to prevent what … Read More

Ernesto Priego reports The Individual and Scholarly Networks two-part online seminar organised by Research Trends magazine and Elsevier Labs. Read More

We get asked a lot about the use of Altmetric data by academic libraries and institutional repositories so I figured it was worth outlining the services we offer and extending an invite to have a chat to anybody else who is curious – we’re always happy to hear your thoughts on altmetrics in general and to give talks or demos. You can reach me directly at euan@altmetric.com. (for an overview of the potential uses of alt-metrics by libraries that includes reviews of other tools check out Stacey Konkiel’s awesome Altmetrics: An App Review slides or view the video … Read More

Altmetric data for journals To commemorate their 100th year, the Journal of Ecology published a Centenary volume with 150 articles. In a great post on the journal’s blog, executive editor David Gibson, managing editor Andrea Baier, and associate editor Scott Chamberlain examined the uptake of … Read More

Up close and personal with the scientists We know about the scientific work – but what about the people behind it? Unless the researchers are personal acquaintances or famous figures, we usually know very little about who was working behind the scenes. Occasionally, a scientist steals the spotlight away from his or her own research. In this week’s Interactions, we take a look at a few extraordinary scientists (who also happen to be unusually popular on social media) in order to show how being connected to the scientists brings us closer to them and their work.   … Read More

Where we suggest some characteristics of open scholarship as strategies to get your research mentioned online. Read More

We’ve had a great start to 2013 at Altmetric – here are a few recent developments we’d like to share. Blog curation Since November, we’ve been working on improving our lists of blog sources that are scanned through for mentions of scholarly papers. The scholarly blogosophere (which we represent as in yellow; see the donut on the right) is a fascinating, ever-changing entity, and we’ve been having great fun delving into blogging communities of various different disciplines and capturing mentions from the most interesting, reliable, and well-written blogs. We started by adding over 100 physics and astronomy blogs and about … Read More

In this post we share a dataset which is based on an Altmetric Explorer Report of the papers with the keyword "humanities" in the title. We provide some context to the gathering of the data, and list the ten articles from the dataset that had the highest Altmetric scores. Read More

The art of research The ease of electronic access, combined with the lack of print versions of online open access journals, means that flipping through a paper copy of a journal isn’t as common as it once was. Although retrieving scholarly articles electronically may have become the norm, many would agree that there remains something oddly satisfying about holding the physical copy of a journal issue. One tradition that continues to be upheld by print journals (but is diminishing in importance for electronic journals) is the cover image. The cover is the first thing that you see when you pick up … Read More