{"id":496,"date":"2017-12-14T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/?p=496"},"modified":"2017-12-14T08:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:08:40","slug":"try-using-altmetrics-to-track-your-readership-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/2017\/12\/14\/try-using-altmetrics-to-track-your-readership-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Try using altmetrics to track your readership statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a citation analysis of your works through Google Scholar or searches in MLA unfortunately won&#8217;t tell you much about how your publications are actually being used by readers.<\/p>\n<p>Try this service available through the Library. Go to the Library Homepage and do a search for your name&#8212;your publications and the book reviews of your work should come up. In the bottom right hand corner of the citation you may see an icon that looks like this. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/plum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on it and you should get more information through a methodology known as altmetrics.<\/p>\n<p>For example, doing a search for Martha Carpentier, brings up, among\u00a0 a listing of her other publications:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1149\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac.png 1149w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac-300x72.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac-768x183.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac-1024x244.png 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/marthac-624x149.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Plum X Metrics icon and you will see that 2,822 libraries own this book; 2,544 individuals have read the abstract of this book and so forth. Please contact Marta [marta.deyrup@shu.edu] or Gerry [Gerard.Shea@shu.edu]\u00a0 if you&#8217;d like a demonstration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1104\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite.png 1104w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite-300x102.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite-768x261.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite-1024x348.png 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2017\/12\/martha-cite-624x212.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1104px) 100vw, 1104px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a citation analysis of your works through Google Scholar or searches in MLA unfortunately won&#8217;t tell you much about how your publications are actually being used by readers. Try this service available through the Library. Go to the Library Homepage and do a search for your name&#8212;your publications and the book reviews of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}