People are starting to use these, but not very much, so PLoS ONE wants to start the ball rolling.
- Chris Patil
PLoS provides article-level metrics for all their articles, e.g. citations, usage, blog posts, etc.
- Martin Fenner
there's some good arguments against assigning numbers to students in school, also. I think stats are a good thing, as long as they aren't the only thing. Remember, Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/stats also is collecting usage stats, in which PLoS figures quite well.
- Mr. Gunn
article level metrics fall into six areas 1. citation metrics 2. usage metrics 3. expert rankings (F1000) 4. Conversations (blogs, media coverage, comments) 5. social bookmarking (citeulike etc) 6. Other cools stuff (geotagging of authors etc)
- Duncan Hull
Number of blog posts about an article isn't necessarily a measure of quality - a flawed paper might attract more commentary and blogging than a flawless one.
- Chris Patil
Article-level metrics as post-publication peer review.
- Martin Fenner
pre-publications and post-publication metrics
- Duncan Hull
Need open APIs to access the data (not proprietary)
- Duncan Hull
@patil a flawed paper could potentially be more interesting.
- Bosco Ho
from iPhone
ResearchBlogging.org are building an Open API at the request of PLoS one
- Duncan Hull
usage numbers going to be available soon at plos
- Pedro Beltrao
Let people comment in whatever space they feel comfortable (friendfeed, blogs, disqus, citeulike, whatever etc) and then aggregate that content. e.g. www.postgenomic.com requires use of rel="rev" tag in html
- Duncan Hull
Future work, integration with mendeley, zotero, papers, researchblogging.org add usage data (coming in August)
- Duncan Hull
Plosone is big enough to twist the arms of big sites to provide an open API. The possibilities are endless.
- Bosco Ho
from iPhone
friendfeed and twitter discussions difficult to aggregate, rarely mention DOI or authors or title of paper :-)
- Duncan Hull