Martijn Roelandse – Manager Publishing Innovation

Milan Wielinga – Managing Director at Palgrave Macmillan

Euan Adie – Founder of Altmetric

APE Berlin - January 2016

Bookmetrix – explore the impact of your books!

Who has authored an

article?

And did it count in your

research evaluation?

Who has authored a

chapter or a book?

And did it count in your

research evaluation?

https://ritetag.com/hashtag-stats/ape2016

As an author I have

no idea what the

actual impact

is of my book (so why should I go through the process of

writing one?)

No recognition for my

book from faculty,

university administrators

or funders

As a publishing editor

I would like to

encourage authors to

write more books by

showing reliable

metrics (In this day and age authors expect more

from their publisher)

EXTINCT?

Bookmetrix

pulls together

information about the

attention paid to,

use of and impact of

books

Books

benefit hugely

from new ways of

looking at attention

& impact.

Including archival

content!

42k mentions to

98k books

published

before 2000

In addition, books, like journals, are discussed online

© 1991

January 2015

So…

the story behind a book

doesn’t finish

when it gets published.

And it’s

Free!

What have we done so far

- Launched at London Book Fair in May 2015

- Book metrics are displayed on springer.com and SpringerLink

- Bookmetrix Bookshelf available for Springer in-house staff

Altmetrics API

Springer API • Downloads • Metadata

ONIX

Bookmetrix Bookshelf

(Springer IP)

Bookmetrix Front End

(Springer IP)

Bookmetrix API

Mendeley API

CrossRef

The dashboard for books and chapters

Data Sources

Whole Book

Chapters

Click and the metrics take you here!

Click and the metrics take you here!

Click here to go to Mendeley for number of readers per chapter

Since launching in April engagement is growing

Customer feedback and ALPSP award nomination

25%⌂

Users

40%⌂

Page

views

30%⌂

SL traffic to

Bookmetrix

15%⌂

Returning

Visitors

Data: Google Analytics, % increase October 2015 over August 2015, data October 2015

6%

Bounce rate

Traditional databases

like Web of Science and

Scopus focus on journals

in research evaluations

On average 20 citations per book

Cited half life: 20 - 30 years!

N= 107,313 English language titles, citation data from CrossRef

Traditional citation databases underestimate the impact of books

No outbound link with CrossRef, subsequently no additional citation for this Springer book

10 million documents reference clean-up project

70%⌂

How many references to books in chapters and articles have a linkout to CrossRef?

Books? Who cites books?

30 – 40%

50 – 60%

70 – 80%

Same as articles, all!

Stop

judging books

by their cover