This document provides instructions for using the Altmetric and ImpactStory tools to view metrics and track the impact of scholarly publications. It explains how to install the Altmetric bookmarklet to see metrics for articles with DOIs. It also outlines how to set up an ImpactStory profile by connecting accounts and importing publications to view altmetrics and track citations, downloads and mentions over time.

1. Altmetric tools
Two to get you started:
ImpactStory
Sarah Goodier
5 June 2014

2. Using the Altmetric Bookmarklet
An introduction
5 June 2014
version 3

3. What is Altmetric.com?
• “Altmetric tracks what people are saying
about papers online on behalf of institutions,
publishers, authors, libraries and institutions”
http://www.altmetric.com/
• The bookmarklet is “a simple browser tool
that lets you instantly get article level metrics
for any recent paper, for free”

4. The Bookmarklet

5. To get started:
go to http://www.altmetric.com

6. Mouse over “Products”

7. Click on “Bookmarklet”

8. The bookmarklet is available for the browsers:
Chrome, Firefox and Safari

9. Very easy to install:
just grab the “Altmetric it!” button and
drag it to your bookmarks bar

10. Very easy to install:
just grab the “Altmetric it!” button and
drag it to your bookmarks bar

11. Once installed, the “Altmetric it!” button
will appear in your bookmarks bar

12. • On any article that has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
e.g. doi: 10.1002/berj.3000
You can use the bookmarklet:

13. • On any article that has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
e.g. doi: 10.1002/berj.3000
You can use the bookmarklet:
A DOI is:
“a unique alphanumeric string assigned to a
digital object, such as an electronic journal,
article, report, or thesis”
“a stable, persistent link to the full-text of an
electronic item on the Internet”
DOIs don't change over time (URLs can), even
if the item moves to a new location.
WHATISADOI?
Information on DOIs from CrossRef: http://help.crossref.org/#what_is_a_doi
URL 1 URL 2
DOI

14. • On any article that has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
e.g. doi: 10.1002/berj.3000
You can use the bookmarklet:

15. To use the bookmarklet:
Navigate to any recent article

16. To use the bookmarlet:
Click on the “Altmetric it!” button
in your bookmarks bar

17. You will see the Altmetric.com results appear in the top
right hand corner of your screen:

18. The Altmetric.com results:
The Altmetric donut
• colour-coded
according to
which sources
have mentioned
the article

19. The Altmetric.com results:
The Altmetric score
Quantitative measure of attention for
the paper
Considers:
• Volume (how many people interact with it),
• Sources (what medium its shared in)
• Authors (who interacts with it)
of that attention

20. The Altmetric.com results:
Where the article is being
shared/mentioned and
how many times

21. The Altmetric.com results:
Where the article is
being bookmarked

22. The Altmetric.com results:
More details are
available…

23. This includes:
Tweets

24. This includes:
The demographics of the Tweeters

25. This includes:
Some context of the Altmetric score

26. • Sources of the data measured fall into 4 major categories:
– Social media
– Online reference manager download counts
– Publisher and PubMed Central download counts
– Mainstream media data
• A comprehensive list can be found here:
http://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/8333
5-which-data-sources-does-altmetric-track-
Some additional things to note:

27. For more information and to keep up to date with the
latest on Altmetric.com and their bookmarklet:
• See Altmetric.com’s blog post on their bookmarklet:
http://altmetric.com/blog/getting-scholarly-conversations-
instantly-altmetric-it/
• See the FAQ page:
http://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1537
70-altmetric-it-bookmarklet-faq
• Follow the blog: http://altmetric.com/blog/
• Follow Altmetric.com on Twitter: @Altmetric

29. Using ImpactStory
A basic step-by-step introduction
5 June 2014
Version 7

30. What is ImpactStory?
• “an open-source, web-based tool that helps
researchers explore and share the diverse
impacts of all their research products”
http://www.impactstory.org/faq
• You can use it to get an idea who is bookmarking,
recommending, saving and citing your papers as
well as other outputs (e.g. software and blog
posts) and where this is happening

32. To get started:
go to http://impactstory.org/

33. Select “What’s my impact”
to get started…

34. Complete your name, email address and a password:

35. Select “Uncover my impact”:

38. Click on the appropriate option(s) to add your
products from any/all of the below sources:

39. E.g. Adding Figshare products:

40. E.g. Adding Github code:

41. E.g. Adding your Google Scholar profile articles:

42. E.g. Adding your ORCID profile articles:

43. E.g. Adding your Slideshare products:

44. The channels you’ve connected will show as on:

45. Select “back to profile” when you’re done adding:

46. Your products will then update with
any impact info:

47. You can also “Import individual products”:

48. For “Import individual products”, there are a variety of
IDs you can use to import products:

49. You can access your account settings here:

50. To add a profile picture:

51. To change your notification settings:

52. Edit you custom URL:

53. Change your email address and password:

54. And you’re done!

55. The results of a sample collection
showing the altmetrics of a few outputs:
Available at: http://www.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger

56. The results of a sample collection
showing the altmetrics of a few outputs:
Available at: http://www.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
Linked accounts

57. The results of a sample collection
showing the altmetrics of a few outputs:
Available at: http://www.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
Output title – the name of your paper, dataset, etc

58. The results of a sample collection
showing the altmetrics of a few outputs:
Available at: http://www.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
Summary of
the altmetrics
results

59. The results of a sample collection
showing the altmetrics of a few outputs:
Available at: http://www.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
In the summary of the altmetrics
results, BLUE blocks indicate a
measure of scholarly impact
While GREEN blocks indicate a
measure of public impact

60. To see the altmetrics for each article, you can view the results
by clicking on the output title or the altmetrics summary:

61. To see the altmetrics for each article, you can view the results
by clicking on the output title or the altmetrics summary:
You can click through to
see more details on, for
example, the citations
on Scopus

62. To see the altmetrics for each article, you can view the results
by clicking on the output title or the altmetrics summary:
This particular article has 14 Scopus citations.
This article has more citations than 91% of items indexed in that same year
(2012).

63. To see the altmetrics for each article, you can view the results
by clicking on the output title or the altmetrics summary:
You can also track
increases in your
citations, views,
downloads, etc.

64. Some additional things to note:
• You can only use ImpactStory with an account (free)
• When logged in, you can remove items from or add items to
your profile:

65. Some additional things to note:
• If you have already created a profile and have an account, you
can login in to make any changes:

66. You can add other articles, etc. using either
“Connect more accounts” or the “Import individual products”:

67. You can also download the altmetrics data:

68. See how many of the papers listed on the profile are
available Open Access:

69. • Sources of some of the metrics that are measured:
Altmetric.com (for blog post, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter
data), CiteULike, CrossRef, Delicious, Figshare, Mendeley,
PLoS, PubMed, Scopus, Slideshare, Wikipedia.
• To see more on how ImpactStory should and shouldn’t be
used, see the FAQs: http://impactstory.org/faq#toc_3_3
• To download this step by step guide, visit:
http://www.slideshare.net/SarahG_SS/using-impactstory-an-
introduction
Some additional things to note:

70. For more information and to keep up to date with the
latest on ImpactStory:
• See the FAQ page: http://www.impactstory.org/faq
• Find out more about the team behind ImpactStory:
http://www.impactstory.org/about
• Follow the blog: http://blog.impactstory.org/
• Follow ImpactStory on Twitter: @ImpactStory

71. Thank you
sarah.goodier@uct.ac.za
@SarahGoodier
http://openuct.uct.ac.za
@OpenUCT
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