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Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Article Level MetricsLooking Backwards / Looking
Forwards
Pete Binfield Co-Founder and Publisher PeerJ
The PLOS ALM Workshop
10/10/2013
@ThePeerJhttps://peerj.com
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
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Year Pubs Notes2007
1,200 Larger than ~ 95% of all journals
2008
2,800 Largest OA journal in world
2009
4,400 3rd largest journal in world
2010
6,750 Largest journal in world
2011
13,800 ~1.4% of PubMed output in that year
2012
23,500 ~2.4% of PubMed output in that year
2013
~31,000
>3% of the literature
PLOS ONE Quarterly Published Output
http://figshare.com/articles/Scale_of_OA_Publishing/650794
Stacked area graph of the contribution ofmajor ‘APC’ OA publishers (articles per year)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…Screenshot from ~ Nov 2009 but Way Back Machine has examples from April 2008
PLOS Didn’t Invent Article Level Metrics
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Launched in May 2007 http://journalofvision.org/7/7/i/http://www.slideshare.net/PLoS/niso-article-level-metrics-presentation-for-online-2
Academic Publishing is Evolving…June 2007
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
~ May 2009 (NISO presentation)http://www.slideshare.net/PLoS/niso-article-level-metrics-presentation-for-online-2
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
So How Did We Get Here:
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Bill Hooker, Sep 30th 2008. In Comments on http://thewobblingmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/feasibility-of-plos-ones-peer-review-model/
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• A test ALM Email was sent to Authors, in ~ August 2008• at which point PLOS ONE had published ~3,100 articles
• The mailing was merged to all corresponding authors whose articles exceeded certain thresholds for having ALMs to report on
• We provided info which was scraped / obtained from• Google Scholar• Google Analytics• PLOS Commenting functionality• CiteULike• Google News
• Response was 100% positive – giving us reassurance about messaging
Testing the Concept
August 2008
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Presentation at Raleigh, November 2008
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2009/03/article-redesign-on-plos-journals/Mar 31st 2009. It wasn’t called ALMs in this ‘official’ post…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://www.myplick.com/user/PLoS
http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2009/03/31/newly-launched-features-on-our-online-platform/1st use of the phrase by us?
http://everyone.plos.org/2009/03/31/newly-launched-features-on-our-online-platform/ Possible first public use of the phrase ‘article level metrics’ by PLOS
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://www.slideshare.net/PLoS/niso-article-level-metrics-presentation-for-online-2?from_search=27
May 2009 to NISO
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2009/09/article-level-metrics-at-plos-addition-of-usage-data/and http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2009/03/plos-journals-upgrade-to-topaz-092/ by Rich CaveSept 16th 2009. Note: it was now called ALMs…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Any Effects?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Michael Habib, Elsevier, Oct 2009
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
“This paper is featured in a commentary in the Journal of XXX and has been evaluated as “must read” by XXX for the Faculty of 1000 Biology.”
“Top downloaded paper in XXX in 2011”
“PLoS ONE metrics show that this article had 6,358 online views and 1,318 downloads within 3 months of publication. These compare with annual average life-time views of papers ranging from 400 to 2,800 in all PLoS journals, and 600 in PLoS ONE. In early December 2011, its usage was 10,400 versus an average of 900/paper for the journal. It is the 3rd most highly cited paper amongst the XXX papers in the journal.“
Quotes from 3 Resumes (in the Last Few Days)
Note: No one ever mentions tweets, likes, bookmarks etc…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7463-491a
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/09/03/what-does-a-scientist-want/#comment-109084
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Looking Forwards
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Have they fulfilled their original aims?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Is Anyone Using them Fully?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
To What Extent AreWe Talking To Ourselves?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Is this the best usage display we can do?
c.f. Frontiers in 2008…
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Why has no publisher equaled / surpassed this?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Access to the Data?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Internal to PLOS Mid-2008(thanks to J Lin for providing)
Science Online Jan 2010
What Is STILL Missing?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Thank You
Pete BinfieldCo-Founder and Publisher
@[email protected] @ThePeerJ