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1 | *metrics - Social Media Registry | Draft Version: Collection of Social Media Platforms for Science (Top 10 of survey, then Top 50), systematically analyze functions & indicators for metrics; add aggregators later (end of table) | Notes: | NEW category to be defined or discussed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Last update: November 2018 | Most used platforms and social media services by scientists in economics and social sciences (data sources) - Top 10, Top 50, Top 90, not used | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Short URL goo.gl/xTvP6p | Academia.edu | Airity Library | Arnetminer | Bibsonomy | CiteULike | Dailymotion | del.icio.us | Dryar (repository) | Epernicus | EBSCO | F1000 | F1000Prime | Figshare | GitHub | Google Scholar | Google+ | JSTOR | Mendeley | MyNetResearch | mysciencenetwork.com | MySpace | Nature (Blogs) | Nature (OpenSearch) | OpenEdition | PLOS (full-text) | PubMed Commons (Central) | PubPeer | RePEc | ResearchBlogging.org | ResearchGate | Scholastica | Sciblogs.com | ScienceDirect | ScienceSeeker | ScienceStage | Slack | SlideShare | SourceForge | SSRN | Stack Overflow | Tumblr | Vimeo | vk.com | Web of Science™ | Weibo (Sina Weibo) | Wikipedia | YouTube | Zenodo | Zotero | Total | 1* = yes to some extent | ||||||||||||||
6 | General information about platforms and social media services | Type of platform or service | Platform for sharing research papers | Search platform of academic ressources | social reference management service | discovery service provider | source code repository | bibliographic database | social network service | digital library/repository | social network service | Non-Profit Open Access publisher | non-academic forum | preprint repository | academic network service | preprint repository | A question-and-answer website | Video hosting service | citation indexing service | general reference website | video sharing service | reference management service | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Target group | academic | academic | academic | libraries | non-academic | academic | non-academic | academic | non-academic | academic | academic | non-academic forum | academic | academic | academic | academic | non-academic | non-academic | non-academic | non-academic | academic | non-academic | non-academic | academic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Commercial / non-commercial service | commercial | non-commercial | commercial (EBSCO Industries Ltd.) | commercial (Microsoft) | commercial (Google Inc.) | commercial (Google Inc.) | nonprofit (ITHAKA) | commercial (Microsoft) | non-commercial | non-commercial | non-commercial | commercial (ResearchGate GmbH) | commercial (Elsevier) | commercial (Stack Exchange, Inc) | non-commercial | commercial (Subsidiary of IAC) | commercial (Clarivate Analytics) | non-commercial (Wikimedia Foundation) | commercial (Google Inc.) | non-commercial (Center for History and New Media at George Mason University) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Free / subscription source | free and premium options available, some features only available for premium users | free (gold option available for more features, 30 GBP per year) | subscription | free | free | free | subscription (free or low-cost for Africa and developing countries) | free and subscrition (premium services) | free | mostly free | mostly free | free | free | free | free | Basic accounts are for free, Other types of membership have to pay on a monthly basis. | subscription | free | free | free (optional storage upgrades for 2-10$ per month) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Primary purpose | uploading papers | reference management | to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading | reference management | provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries (academic and other) | social network | source code repository, versioning, issue tracking, documentationen | web search engine, indexing service for full text or metadata of scholarly articles (papers, not journals) | social network; social layer for other Google services | selective digital library of academic content including top peer-reviewed journals, respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources | professional networking: business- and employment-oriented service | reference management, research network | journal comments | journal comments | journal comments | collecting & publishing scientific open access resources | journal comments | preprint repository, dissemination of scholarly research, indexing and ranking authors/ research organizations | research network: members share projects, research output and collaborate with their peers | research blogging | preprint repository, dissemination of scholarly research | Questions and answers related to computer programming | blogging | (research) blogging | to upload, share and view videos | research evaluation: access to selected scholarly literature in over 250 disciplines, access to cited reference connections and citation reports | multilingual Wiki of a free, collectively created encyclopedia | display of user-generated and corporate media videos (and audio recordings) | reference management; plus very basic functionalities for document storage, collaboration and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Geographical reach | worldwide | China and Taiwan | worldwide | worldwide | worldwide | worldwide: articles from a wide variety of sources in all fields, all countries, and over all time periods | worldwide; except from mainland China and Iran | > 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access (as of 2013) | >200 countries and territories, access in 24 languages. Highest number of users in USA, Brazil, Great Britain and Canada | worldwide | worldwide | 95 countries | worldwide: 193 countries | worldwide | 140 countries by SSRN's email abstract eJournals | worldwide, big majority in the US | it is banned in Indonesia and China | worldwide, predominance of nordamerican, european and japanese research output in English. Regional databases: Latin America, China, Korea, Russia. Language specific database: Arabic | 299 language editions, over 43 million wiki pages. Largest editions: English, Cebuano, Swedish, German, Dutch and French | 95% of the Internet population, local versions in 88 countries, access in 76 languages | supported in >30 languages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Number of active /registered users | 58 million | not found | ca. 208.000 registered users (Ortega, L. J., 2016, Social Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey. Chandos Publishing). | 1.23 billion daily active users on average for December 2016 (http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ as of 02/19/2017) | 28 Million | not found | about 400 million active users (https://www.statisticbrain.com/google-plus-demographics-statistics/) | > 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access (as of 2013) | 467 million users (members), 106 million monthly active users, 1.5 million groups | over 6 million researchers worldwide https://www.mendeley.com/ as of 02/19/2017) | 542 million monthly visitors (234 million unique users) | over 50.000 authors, over 75.000 email subscriptions | 13+ million members | ca 80 million visitors per month, 38 million registered users | >2.2 Million | 8,501,964 registered and unregistred users (https://stackexchange.com/sites#), 226357 registered users (https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all) | 30-50 million active users | 313 milion monthly active users (https://about.twitter.com/company as of 02/19/2017) | More than 35 million creators worldwide | not found | >272,001 active users (one or more actions within a certain month), >10,151,406,947 registered users, 30,710,162 total users | over a billion users | in 2014 the estimated number of accounts was between 1 and 1.5 million; but even Zotero's developers don't know exact figures (http://quintessenceofham.org/2011/05/21/on-usage-figures/) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Content coverage | 21 Million Papers by their own account | academic journal articles, doctoral dissertations and conference paper compliations | 8,641,673 articles | 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives | source code | journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, post-prints, abstracts, technical reports or their drafts and other scholarly literature from diverse areas of research, court opinions and patents. Sources: web crawling, individual authors, university repositories, journal publishers | unknown | 10 million academic articles from 2.000 journals, 50.000 books, and 2 million primary source documents in 75 disciplines from 1.200 publishers | focus on public professional profiles for promoting visibility, networking (users) and recruiting (companies). Options for adding, editing, or removing publications, video options | possibility to create a subreddit for any topic | about 2.3 million research pieces from 2,800 journals and 4,500 working paper series | 100+ mio publications: Articles, Books, Chapters, Codes, Conference Papers, Cover Pages, Data Sets, Experiment Findings, Methods, Negative Results, Patents, Posters, Presentations, Raw Data, Research Proposals, Technical Reports, Thesis, Working Papers, Figures and media files, Unpublished articles and working copies/ Members by discipline: 15% Medicine, 14% Biology, 14% Engineering, 7% Chemistry, 6% Comp. Science, 4% Physics, 40% Other | 18 million uploads in 40 content categories | 361,685 Authors, 776,247 Abstracts, 656,786 Full Text Papers, 66,189 Papers received (last 12 months) | 15,460,642 questions, and 24,036,862 answers | there are 55,434,134 videos (short films and movies) as of 2015. | Web of Science Core Collection: >18,000 peer reviewed journals, books and proceedings. 100% fully indexed cited references, authors and autor affiliations, 1.3 billion cited references going back to 1900 | diverse: anyone with internet access regardless of age, culture or background can contribute to the platform. Users can be contributors and make changes to Wikipedia articles. Contributions are more important than expertise or qualifications of the contributor | talks, webinars, presentations, academic interviews | in 2015, ~60% of the items in the Altmetric.com database had at least one entry in Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/blog/studying-the-altmetrics-of-zotero-data/) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Website | http://www.airitilibrary.com/ | http://www.citeulike.org/ | https://www.ebsco.com/ | www.faceboo.com | www.github.com | scholar.google.com | https://plus.google.com | https://www.jstor.org/ | www.linkedin.com | www.mendeley.com | http://blogs.nature.com/ | https://www.plos.org/publications | https://www.reddit.com/ | http://repec.org/ | www.researchgate.net | https://de.slideshare.net/ | https://www.ssrn.com/ | https://stackoverflow.com/ | https://www.tumblr.com/ | www.twitter.com | https://vimeo.com/ | www.webofknoledge.com | www.wikipedia.org | www.youtube.com | http://www.zotero.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Functions that allow scientific communication (sorted by purpose) | Networking and collaboration | Discuss /comment on publications within the platform | peer reviews on drafts | reviews, ratings, tags | Notes (private?) | commenting on commits | no networking / collaboration options within the platform | possible through posts and comments referring to posts | no networking / collaboration options within the main platform (sub-site JSTOR Global Plants has a community approach) | comment | comment | comment | no | comment, request feedback | comments/likes | no | Yes | Yes, below the post or by reblogging it | Disscussion/Comments are below the video section | no networking collaboration / options within the platform | talk or discussion pages: administration pages for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or WikiProject | comments below the video section | only via personal notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Follow users / network building | follow | connection (actively added to own network) and neighbours (i.e. users that save the same papers) | follow | Google+ circles and -communities | LinkedIn contacts: connections | no | follow | no | follow | follow | no | Networking/collaboration is done via the comments/chatrooms | follow | It is possible to follow users | networking and colaboration within the talk or discussion section of each article | channel subscriptions | rudimentary functionalities for follower relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Create / follow groups or projects | no | groups | watch projects | groups are called communities | groups | no | create subreddits | no | projects | follow | no | it is possible to create chatrooms for disscussion and colloborations | follow sites managed by a certain project/group | One can create unlimited Channels, Groups, and forums with Vimeo Plus. | as contributor or editor of Wikipedia articles | groups (search over channels with simmilar interests) | groups | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Working in groups (e.g. Exchanging publications, saving notes in the uploaded PDF) | no | add tags to publications, share publications in groups | Shared folders, Sharepoint integration | possible through Google Docs integration | not applicable | via subreddits | no | exchange publications | no | yes | no | not applicable | collaboration: anyone can edit an article | not applicable | shared literature management, shared tags | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Send / receive inquiries (e.g. author versions of publications), send private messages (mailbox) | private messages | private messages | no | private messages (as special cases of Stream messages) | private messages | private inbox | only via email | request fulltext, private messages, endorse, confirm authorship | no | no | mailbox | Private messages | user talk pages: public, private message option is available via enabled email messaging | private and public messages | very basic private messaging and forums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Release status messages | no | user can blog, recent activities visible on user profile | no | yes | "headline" option | no | no | 0 | no | User profile has a section "about me" and can be edited. | blog post, "about me" | one can set a status message in the 'about' pages of each person or forum | user pages can be used for this purpose | channel trailer | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Consult the community | no | only forum in groups | issue tracker, comments | implicitely, by using the Stream | not applicable | via subreddits | question & answer, experts | through notes and comment section under presentations | Questions and answers | Questions and answers | through the Help Center and Forums | Project:Suppport desk | YouTube Help Forum | public forums on https://forums.zotero.org/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Blogs or other functionalities connecting the platform operators with the users so that the operators can get feedback from platform users or explain new features | https://medium.com/@academia | discussion site: http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc/3124/home, There are specific forums for bug reports and feature requests. There's also a forum for general topics. | https://blog.github.com/ | https://scholar.googleblog.com/ | https://www.blog.google/products/google-plus/ | https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/community/topics | https://blog.linkedin.com/ | https://blogs.plos.org/plos/ | https://redditblog.com/ | https://www.researchgate.net/blog | https://blog.slideshare.net | https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ | https://staff.tumblr.com/ | https://developer.vimeo.com/ and https://vimeo.com/blog | https://clarivate.com/blog/tag/web-of-science/ | https://blog.wikimedia.org/ | https://youtube.googleblog.com/ | official blog on https://www.zotero.org/blog/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Publication and dissemination | Upload of full texts or other content | full text uploads from authors | pdf can be uploaded to private library, ris/bibtex files can be imported | not applicable | mostly source code, but upload any type of document | not applicable | not directly - only by uploading texts as pictures; third-party software allows to convert and upload PDFs | 0 | upload of documents (.pdf, .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt), photos (.png, .jpg, .jpeg), presentations (.pdf, .ppt, .pps, .pptx, .ppsx, .pot, .potx, .odp), websites and videos | full text publishing | via subreddits | full text uploads from authors | 1 | upload presentations. infographics, documents and videos | 1 | no, StackOverflow does not provide file hosting services. | Yes | Upload of video/audio is possible | full text upload from publishers | photo upload under Creative Commons copyright licenses, no full text upload | video/ audio upload, no full text upload | files can be uploaded to entries in a private library; libraries can be imported in various formats | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Download of full texts or other content | full text downloads | no fulltexts, but download of bibliographic metadata | yes, if available | clone repositories, download files | direct download is not possible, the search engine locates full texts and other content on the web | only as made available by other users, see restrictions above | 1 | not applicable | full text downloads | via subreddits | full text downloads | 1 | download the above | 1 | no | no | no | only full texts with open access | not applicable | not applicable | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Web Importer | not applicable | bookmarklet: http://www.citeulike.org/bookmarklets.adp | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | Text analyzer to search for articles, no import | not applicable | 1 | URL or DOI, or manually in BibTex, RIS, MODS, RefWorks, Refer/BiblX, Dblp, and XML | not applicable | no | no | no | Vimeo Video Post is a WordPress video importer plugin specially developed for Vimeo that allows quick importing of Vimeo videos as WordPress posts with attached video player from channels, albums, user, groups or categories. | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | connectors are available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Export of bibliographic data in other formats (e.g. BibTeX) | no | bibtex, endnote, ris, pdf, rtf, plain text | RIS Format (e.g. CITAVI, EasyBib, EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero), XML, BibTeX, MARC21, RefWorks, EndNote, EasyBib, CSV | not applicable | RefWorks, RefMan, EndNote, and BibTeX | not applicable | RefWorks, EasyBib, RIS, BibTeX | not applicable | RIS BibTex | no | 0 | not applicable | no | no | no | no | EndNote | not applicable | not applicable | exports to various formats available (BibTex, BibLaTex, RDF, Endnote XML, CSV, ...) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Share / reshare publications (via additional Social Media, e.g. Facebook, Twitter) | twitter button | delicious | 189 channels via addthis.com | not applicable | depending on individual settings, Stream messages can be reshared with circles and communities | 0 | "Share an article" option, no reshare option | copy/ embed links to a certain post | Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Delicious, | Facebook, LinkedIn, Google | Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn | Facebook, Twitter, citeulike | no | yes | no | not applicable | not applicable | Facebook, Wykop, LiveJournal, vk.com, ok.ru, Google+, Twitter, Blogger, reddit, Tumblr | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Forwarding of publications to peers / magazines (i.e. proposals for publications) | no | not applicable | via Stream messages | 0 | not applicable | vie email | via email, messages | links are available | no | no | no | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Saving of publications with link (Social Bookmarking) | personal bookmark list | yes | personal watchlist | personal collection of articles via Google Scholar library | no | myLists, shelf | not applicable | saving articles in "MyIdeas" | follow, recommend, share with members | likes, clipboard | saving articles in "MyBriefcase" | no | "favorites" | no | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Quoting publications with reference to different quotation styles | Plain, ACS, APA, APA(Reed), APS, CBE, Chicago, Elsevier, Harvard, IEEE, Jama, MLA, Nature, Oxford, Science, Turabian, Vancouver | ABNT, AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Vancouver | not applicable | not applicable | no | Cite this item (MLA, APA, Chicago) | not applicable | 0 | not applicable | 0 | no | no | no | not applicable | APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-date referencing, Vancouver system and Bluebook among others | not applicable | yes, with add-ins for MS Word and LibreOffice; thousands of citation styles available at https://www.zotero.org/styles/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Open review / evaluation (e.g. giving ratings for publications) | peer reviews on "draft sessions" | ratings, reviews, tags | no | not applicable | no | 0 | like, comment and share options for shared articles | n/a | review, request a review, recommend | like, clip, comment and share options for shared presentations, documents, infographics or videos | 0 | no | no | no | not applicable | article evaluation within the talk or discussion pages. Ratings: featured articles (given by Wikipedia editors) | not applicable | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Self-Marketing | Creation of a user profile with CV and / or other documents and export of user profiles as CV | basic (picture, address, web page) | basic (picture, url, mail, bio) | not applicable: Google Scholar creates a public profile from the web, details can be confirmed or deleted by the author. No CV option, no export of user profile | user profiles contain fields for demographical information, biography, occupation and education; no dedicated export function | No user user profile functionality | user profile as CV, embed option from other profiles (YouTube, Prezi, SlideShare, GitHub, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google+, etc.) in order to display work samples | no | no | 1 | user profiles with CV but no export option | 0 | There is user profiles with CV but without an export function | no export function, but freely designable profiles | no | not applicable | not applicable: user page as a means to help write on Wikipedia instead as a social networking tool | not applicable | user profiles with CVs exist; but no export function | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Present own skills and expertise on own user profile | Research fields, About me, my interests | Author profiles (automatic) | no | not applicable | possible by entering information on education and occupation; other than that not further supported | education, work experience and skills sections in profile | no | n/a | 1 | possibility to present "branche" on profile | 0 | Yes, it is possible to write about the previous exprience in the profile. | It's possible to write that into the profile | no | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | profiles contain fields for Disciplines, Affiliation, Website and Biography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Integration of the user profile on other websites | log in with Facebook | no | not applicable | possible via Google+ Badges (https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/); websites can include a Google Sign-In, which allows users to login with their Google+ credentials | embed option to other platforms or services | no | 1 | not applicable | 0 | yes, there is a HTML code (called flair) and one can place on any website to show off your user profile. | Embedding videos to other websites is an option | not applicable | not applicable | embed option to other platforms or services | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Statistiscs for user profiles / rankings | no | no | not applicable | the following statistics are visible to a profile's owner: net new profile followers, net new collection followers, post views, post comments, post +1s, post reach (including post and post reshare stats) | views of profile, followers | various credit systems, top posts | ranking for top authors | 1 | top slideshares of the day, top topics, trending on social media | 1 | Number of questions answered by the user, Number of questions the user asked, reputation which is a rough number of by posting good questions and useful answers, and badges for those who use more facilities of the website (https://stackoverflow.com/help/what-are-badges) | Number of followers/following, post activity | Number of collaborators, followers, videos and likes | not applicable | not applicable | views of profile | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | View of advertisements and applications for jobs | no | no | not applicable | only implicitely through Stream messages | number of saved jobs, number of applied jobs | yes | n/a | 1 | https://de.slideshare.net/about/workatslideshare | 1 | https://stackoverflow.com/jobs | no | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Publication of job advertisements | no | no | not applicable | only implicitely through Stream messages | "post a job" option (LinkedIn Jobs) | yes | n/a | 1 | only through slideshares | 1 | https://stackoverflow.com/jobs | no | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | no, just one page about open positions directly at Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/jobs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Impact of platforms or social media services in the scientific community | Interactions between services | Social actions: insert options or icons that allow interfaces between the platforms or services | delicious | Display PlumX metrics | none | posts, comments, +1s, shares | 0 | likes, follows, comments, shares | "Follow me on Research Gate"-badge | share through LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter | Share through Google+/Twitter/Facebook/Emails | Share through Facebook/Twitter/Email/Messenger Services | Share through Facebook/Twitter/Google+/Tumblr/Pinterest/Reddit | none (Facebook like to Web of Science™ page) | none | Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogger, Reddit, Tumblr, vk.com, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc. | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | *metrics analyzed | Activities analyzed by *metrics aggregators | Abstract views, downloads | Bookmarks | Bookmarks | Usage (Views, Link-outs, Captures (Download, Mendeley Reads), Social Media (Twitter: Tweet/Re-Tweet) | Posts (likes & similar), shares comments, friends | Likes, shares, downloads | Stars, forks, downloads, watched repositories | for autors: number of papers, citations, h-index, i10-index in total and in the last 5 years, list of co-authors; for journals: h5-index, h5-median, top 100 publications (ordered by h5-index and h-median metrics) in several languages, top 20 journals after areas of research. Metrics cover articles published between 2012 and 2016 (index as of June 2017) | Posts (+1, comments), shares | views, downloads, bookmarks, number of citations; usage reports for admins only (Counter4-compliant) | LinkedIn Groups | Bookmarks, citations, H-index, publications, views, readers, demographics, followers, following | Comments, downloads | Posts (upvotes, downvotes, comments) | ResearchGate Score, Reach (direct & indirect), percentile of the score, reads (=view summary, fulltext or download incl. Google Scholar) / citations / recommendations, followers, h-index | favorites, comments, downloads | ratings, recommendations | CiteULike score | posts / answers (upvotes) | tweets, retweets, favorites, likes, followers, following | comments | Web of Science™ Core Collection Times Cited | mentions, citations | views, likes, dislikes, comments, shares, videos on playlists, subscribers | none yet, despite previously stated interest by both Altmetric.com and the Zotero community (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/68958/zotero-altmetrics-any-update) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | APIs & limits | APIs from platforms (URL) | http://wiki.citeulike.org/ not working | https://developer.github.com/v3/? | no API | https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/ | JSTOR Data for Research (not an API) https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/text-mining-support/ Matchmaker http://labs.jstor.org/api/docs/ | General API information: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/rest-api# | API | How to access data: https://ideas.repec.org/getdata.html RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/api.html | no API | no API | https://api.stackexchange.com/ (it covers stack overflow data as well) | Gnip | https://developer.vimeo.com/api/start | Links Article Match Retrieval Service (Links AMR) (https://ws.isiknowledge.com/cps/xrpc) | MediaWiki API (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) | YouTube Data API v3 (YouTube Analytics API) | https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | APIs' limits | ? | OAuth 2.0; limits depending on call count, cpu usage and execution time on their servers; also depending on amount of users that authorized the app calling the API; with 0 users it is very slow | not applicable | courtesy quotas apply: https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/#quota; also, to access profile-related data via the API an authentication by that profile's owner is required | limited to 1,000 articles; users seeking larger results are asked to contact JSTOR Data for Research | Posibility of mining posts from groups is closed | not applicable | no API | Without a key you can make 300 requests per day, with a key you can make 10,000 requests per day. With an access token, the 10,000 request limit is just for your app for that user. Without an access token, the 10,000 request limit is shared between apps on the IP Address be dropped (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/throttle and https://stackapps.com/questions/3055/is-there-a-limit-of-api-requests) | OAuth; Rate-Limiting: GET/search/tweets - 450 requests / 15 min (with app authorization); with Standard Search API only tweets of the last 7 days can be searched => works limit: ~ 300.000 | https://developer.vimeo.com/guidelines/rate-limiting | user authorisation and authentication required, commercial use. further information at http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/LAMRService/WebServiceOperationsGroup/requestResponseAPI.html | virtually no restrictions, limited to 500 articles (looping needed) | user authorisation and authentication required, commercial use. Further information at https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started | bibliography read requests limited to 150 items par request; conditions under which rate limiting sets in aren't specified explicitly (https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/basics) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Tools and sources - Data aggregators | Commercial data providers | Data integrated in Altmetric Explorer (altmetric.com) | yes | no data collection | no data collection | mentions in public posts | no data collection | LinkedIn groups (early 2013 to 3/12/2014)) | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | Daily scan for links to scholarly outputs. | no | no data collection | mentions of scholarly outputs collected from References section. English Wikipedia only. The article cited must use a properly-formatted Wikipedia citation tag | links to scholarly outputs within the video descriptions and video comments. YouTube videos must have a link to the scholarly article outside of the video in order to be tracked | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Dimensions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Data integrated in Kudos | via altmetric.com | not found | not found | via altmetric.com | not found | see altmetric.com (Partner) | not found | not found | not found | not directly, but they also show altmetric attention score for publications and crossref citations | no | Web of Science™ Times Cited | see altmetric.com (Partner) | see altmetric.com (Partner) | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Data integrated in PlumX (Plum Analytics) | 1 | number of public and private readers | Nr. of abstract views, full text views, HTML views, link outs, PDF views, sample downloads, supporting data views, nr. of views, exports/saves to bibliographic management tools | no data collection | "+1"s | no data collection | no data collection | Nr. of abstract views, downloads, citation indexes (nr. of RePEc works that cite the artifact as computed by CiTEc) | no data collection | no data collection | The number of links to the artifact (They mentioned Stack Exchange, and not directly stack overflow) | The number of topics in a forum discussing the article | no data collection | nr. of links to the artifact. Wikipedia posts might refer and link to many different forms of research: peer-reviewed articles, theses, data sets or even working papers, reports or blog posts | nr. of times the video or audio has been played, nr. of people who have subscribed for an update, nr. of likes, nr. of comments made about an artifact, nr. of times the artifact has been marked as favorite | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Non-commercial data providers (open source) | Data integrated in Impactstory.org | via altmetric.com | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | see altmetric.com (Partner) | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | nr. of links | see altmetric.com (Partner) | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Data integrated in Depsy.org (ImpactStory) | no | no data collection: "Depsy text-mines papers to find fulltext mentions of software they use, revealing impacts invisible to citation indexes like Google Scholar." [1] "Depsy calculates impact along three dimensions (and a fourth, coming later, that will capture social signals like GitHub watchers and Stack Overflow discussions). The overall impact score of a package is calculated as the average of these three: downloads from software repositories, software reuse via reverse dependencies, and literature reuse via mentions within papers." [2] | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Data integrated in Lagotto (general) | yes as 'saved' | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no | no | Web of Science™ Times Cited | nr. of references across the 25 largest Wikipedia language sites and Wikimedia Commons (PLOS) | no data collection | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Data integrated in PLOS (implementation von Lagotto) | combined with Mendeley bookmarks (as 'saved') | no data collection | included | included | included | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | included (individual and group bookmarks aggregated) | integrated in form of HTML-, PDF-, and XML-views, as well as PLOS comments | integrated in form of HTML- and PDF-views | included | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | included | Web of Science™ Times Cited | nr. of Wikipedia articles in the 25 most popular wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons | no data collection | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Data integrated in VIVO | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Data integrated in VZG (implementation von Lagotto) | ? | not found | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Data Integrated in Webometric Analyst 2.0 | no | no data collection | no data collection | through Altmetric.com | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no data collection | no | no | no data collection | nr. of links | lists of videos matching a search for a keyword, channel, or tag; information about a list of videos; statistics about the channels of a list of users, comments on videos; network diagram of the replies to comments on a video, export the comments downloaded in to Mozdeh for keyword and time series analyses | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Altmetric.com outputs and data sources | Policy documents | Mentions of any public policy, guidance, or guidelines document from a governmental or non-governmental organisation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Mainstream media | Mentions in over 2,700 English and non-English global news outlets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Blogs | Mentions in manually curated list of over 11,000 academic and non-academic blogs. Tracking via RSS feeds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Online reference managers | Mendeley, CiteULike | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Post-publication Peer-Review forums | PubPeer, Publons | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Social Media | Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit. LinkedIn and Pinterest: historical data | Posts on public pages only, no individual timeline posts and no likes | Historical data: LinkedIn groups (closed data stream) | Historical data: historical mentions on detail pages (closed data stream) | Original posts only, not comments | Public tweets, quoted tweets and retweets only, no favourites | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Other online sources | Wikipedia, Sites running Stack Exchange (Q&A), Reviews on F1000, YouTube, Open Syllabus | 0 | 1 | 1* | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Collection method | no data collection | Wikipedia API | YouTube API | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Update frequency | no data collection | Real-time feed | Daily | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Altmetric Attention Score | Indicator of the amount of attention a reseacht output has received regardless its quality. The score is determined by an automated algorithm which takes into account three factors: volume (number of mentions), source (quality of the source of the mentions, e.g. an average newspaper posting will have a higher weighting that an average tweet), and author (the author of the mention changes the weighting given to each mention, i.e. someone who is considered an influencer within a community will receive a higher weighting that someone who is not) | 0 | 3 | 0,25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Altmetric.com API | http://api.altmetric.com/ | no data collection | ? | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | API limits | Commercial use, free use only to fetch basic alt-metrics information about articles and datasets | no data collection | ? | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Altmetric.com level of openess | not applicable | contradictory information about indicators, see [1] and [2] | contradictory information about indicators, see [1] and [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | What is Dimensions | free discovery service | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Sources | references extracted from CrossRef, PubMed Central, Open Citation Data and fulltexts display of altmetric donut badge based on ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Collection method | OA information from unpaywall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Update frequency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Dimensions Badge | combination of 4 citation indicators (exclude JIF), for display on individual websites of authors, organisations need to register | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Dimensions API | https://figshare.com/s/3c8f0284e8e51718c1b2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | API limits | non-commercial use of individuals, organisations need to register, only articles are free to access, others (grants, patents and clinical trials) only available to paying organisations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Dimensions level of openess | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Metrics available in Kudos | API limits | 0 | not applicable | not applicable | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Kudos views | Total number of visits to a publication page on the Kudos site | 0 | not applicable | not applicable | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Click throughs | Number of click througs to the publisher site | 0 | not applicable | not applicable | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Publication views | Number of times a publication’s abstract has been clicked on/read online at the publisher’s site (data provided by participanting publishers) | 0 | not applicable | not applicable | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Full text downloads | Number of times your publication has been downloaded/read online from the publisher’s site (data provided by participanting publishers) | 0 | not applicable | not applicable | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Altmetric score | Representation of the amount of interest your publication has attracted across news outlets and social media sites | 0 | see Altmetric.com | see Altmetric.com | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Web of Science™ Times Cited | Counts from Thomson Reuters Web of Science™. Number of times a publication has been cited, and link through to Web of Science™ to see a list of the citing articles | 1 | not applicable | not applicable | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Kudos indicator | No information found | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Kudos API | No information found | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Basic service free for researchers, commercial use for publishers, funders and institutions | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Kudos level of openess: not fully comprehensible. Social media sharing activities (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other) are counted as "share referals" to a personal publication page and as part of the "Altmetric score" | not found | not found | not found | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | PlumX indicators sorted by categories (as of April 14, 2017) | Usage Metrics | Abstract Views | Number of times the abstract of an article has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Clicks | Number of clicks of a URL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Collaborators | Number of collaborators of an artifact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Downloads | Number of times an artifact has been downloaded | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Full Text Views | Number of times the full text of an article has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Holdings | Number of libraries that hold the book artifact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | HTML Views | Number of times the HTML of an article has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Link Outs | Number of times an outbound link has been clicked to a library catalog or link resolver | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Plays | Number of times the video or audio has been played | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | PDF Views | Number of times the PDF of an artifact has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Sample Downloads | Number of times an artifact’s content has been sampled (e.g. pages, MP3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Supporting Data Views | Number of times the supporting data of an artifact has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Views | Number of times the artifact has been viewed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Capture Metrics | Bookmarks | Number of times an artifact has been bookmarked | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Favorites | Number of times the artifact has been marked as a favorite | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Followers | Number of times a person or artifact has been followed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
101 | Forks | Number of times a repository has been forked | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
102 | Readers | Number of people who have added the artifact to their library | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||