DOHA: QScience.com has acquired a valuable new tool which will provide its users with comprehensive information related to research articles. In partnership with Altmetric.com, the QScience.com platform will now offer useful indicators that can measure and track the impact of research through page views, news mentions, and social shares from Facebook and Twitter.
Paul Coyne, Technical Systems Director at QScience, said: “The availability of altmetrics for QScience.com articles is an important step forward for research publishing in the region. The discovery and sharing of research papers has moved to the online environment and I believe that we have a duty of care to our authors and their funders to measure, as comprehensively as possible, the impact of the papers that we publish on their behalf. Our partnership with Altmetric.com helps us to do that.”
Citation data is pulled from Web of Science, CrossRef and Scopus and is updated daily. The counts for each article link out to a citation list. Readers can see the total views of an article, both in HTML and in PDF formats, while tracking the cumulative count on any given day using an interactive graph. News, blog posts, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit bookmark data are provided by Altmetric and updated hourly using Altmetric’s application programming interface (API).
Altmetric is supported by Digital Science, a Macmillan company focused on technology to aid scientific research. Blog and Google+ lists link out to the original posts, and news links out to the original article. In addition, a world map shows the number of tweets per country.
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