Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/01/2015 - 17:02
The University’s research information management system, Symplectic Elements has now been updated. This will both increase its efficiency in the short term and reinforce its role as the linchpin which connects, synchronises and collates information from a range of sources and platforms. As part of the latest update, the traditional bibliometrics contained in Symplectic Elements can now be blended with the alternative metrics provided by Altmetric for Institutions to provide a more rounded picture of the research ecosystem.
Each week Altmetric captures and links to hundreds of thousands of tweets, blog posts, policy documents, news stories, videos and other content that mention scholarly articles, in order to provide a more granular breakdown of an article’s public reception and a measure of reach and digital impact which complements the traditional metrics of academic citations and Impact Factors. Both publication data and structural elements, such as defined groups of users, are now synchronised between Symplectic and Altmetric, removing the need for duplication and enriching the information contained in both systems.