Baby steps toward better metrics
Article-Level Metrics provide new ways to look at the impact of scholarly research. Two important concepts are a) to track...
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You should be able to install my software in less than one hour – or why DevOps is important
Cameron Neylon yesterday wrote a great blog post about appropriate business models for shared scholarly communications infrastructure. This is an area I have also been thinking about a lot recently, and in this post I want...
Mendeley and Elsevier
Earlier this week the rumors that started in January became official: Elsevier is buying Mendeley (see also here). A lot has been written about this announcement, in particular about the fear that Mendeley as a product...
Comment: the case for open preprints in biology
Last week Philippe Desjardins-Prouly et al. published the article The case for open preprints in biology – naturally as a preprint...
Using d3.js to visualize Article-Level Metrics over time
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a great set of data (available via API and as monthly data dump) for some...
New version of Article-Level Metrics app released
On Tuesday we released the latest version of the PLOS Article-Level Metrics application. As always, the source code is available at Github. The changes in this version focus on improving API performance, making it easier to...