Joss: JOSS website - Article level metrics

Created on 10 Dec 2017 · 14Comments · Source: openjournals/joss

We should try to add article level metrics to http://joss.theoj.org/papers/accepted, including potentially Altmetrics badges and citation counts

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danielskatz

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And is that a one-time fee? (or yearly ARGH)

Not sure.

TBH, I’m personally not particularly motivated to pay this fee. I’d rather see them develop some kind of plan for community-run efforts like ours.

arfon on 28 Jul 2018

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@danielskatz - could you link to an example of a journal you think does this particularly well? Is this as simple as using the Altmetric widget?

arfon on 12 Dec 2017

I think it is almost that simple, except for the text they give that says:

If you want to use the badges on a site that isn't your lab or personal homepage, blog or an institutional repository then you should first contact us at [email protected] so that we can clear your use case. Do not use the badges commercially - on a journal, search engine, in an app etc. - without talking to us first! We're required by some of our data sources to keep track of who is using the badges and what for, and so need to issue you a license.

PeerJ uses these, but in a slight different format. For our article, for example:
clicking on the "visitors (click for details)" gives a popup that includes a small altmetrics badge, and clicking on this gets you to:
https://www.altmetric.com/details/12082344

danielskatz on 12 Dec 2017

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PLoS does a really good job of it: article level views, saves, citations and shares.

Benjamin-Lee on 16 Jul 2018

OK, I've emailed the Altmetrics folks to seek permission to use the widgets on the JOSS and JOSE sites.

arfon on 27 Jul 2018

OK, I've heard back from the Altmetrics folks and unfortunately the cost for using the badges on our sites is way higher than we could ever afford:

Pricing for the badges for one journal typically starts at around £2,500. They’re a great way of providing instantaneous feedback to authors, and to help visitors to your site see the reach and influence of your content.

I asked if there's a 'discount' rate for volunteer-run, zero-APC journals like ours but apparently there isn't so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😿

arfon on 27 Jul 2018

Could we at least get a page views list? That should be free.

On Jul 27, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Arfon Smith notifications@github.com wrote:

OK, I've heard back from the Altmetrics folks and unfortunately the cost for using the badges on our sites is way higher than we could ever afford:

Pricing for the badges for one journal typically starts at around £2,500. They’re a great way of providing instantaneous feedback to authors, and to help visitors to your site see the reach and influence of your content.

I asked if there's a 'discount' rate for volunteer-run, zero-APC journals like ours but apparently there isn't so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 😿

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Benjamin-Lee on 27 Jul 2018

Maybe we could start a donations campaign to crowdfund the Altmetrics fee?
And is that a one-time fee? (or yearly ARGH)

labarba on 27 Jul 2018

And is that a one-time fee? (or yearly ARGH)

Not sure.

TBH, I’m personally not particularly motivated to pay this fee. I’d rather see them develop some kind of plan for community-run efforts like ours.

arfon on 28 Jul 2018

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altmetrics (the concept) and Altmetric (a service provider) are two different things. Altmetric are just one of many article level metrics providers. Why not look into other sources of altmetrics data e.g. Crossref Event Data? I could be wrong but at a basic level CR event data is free and open? https://www.crossref.org/services/event-data/