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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Taking Control of Your Research Visibility (presentation)
http://openaccess.ku.edu/open-access-initiatives-university-kansas-ku
Types of article-level metrics (ALM)
1. Usage - How many downloads? Where downloaded?
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Examples: KU ScholarWorks, Academia.edu
2. Captures - How many bookmarks, shares (CiteULike, Mendeley)
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Example: how many “reads” an item in Mendeley has been
3. Mentions - Mentions in non-academic media (news stories,
Wikipedia, etc.)
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Example: Altmetric
4. Social media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter shares
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Example: Altmetric
5. Citations - Classic metric for “impact”
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Example: GoogleScholar, GoogleScholar Metrics
Read more in SPARC’s Article-Level Metrics Primer.