Bookmetrix, a new platform launched at last year's London Book Fair, is celebrating its first year of operation. Bookmetrix reports how often an individual book or chapter is cited, mentioned, reviewed or shared and read online.
Springer was the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books via Bookmetrix. Developed in partnership with metrics provider Altmetric, the data captured via Bookmetrix is displayed on the individual book pages on Springer's content platform SpringerLink and springer.com. As a result of last year's merger of the majority of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business Media, creating Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan and Springer aligned their eBook collections on SpringerLink. Palgrave Macmillan books, now integrated into SpringerLink, are in the process of being included in the Bookmetrix service.
Updated in near real-time, Bookmetrix offers unprecedented transparency on a book's reach and impact, not only in terms of usage, but also social media coverage and additional aspects.
Bookmetrix has evolved into a tool highly appreciated by readers and authors – its high value to the scientific community is confirmed by over 750,000 page views per month. More than 225,000 books and almost 4,000,000 chapters are currently offering the Bookmetrix service.
Renowned scholarly publisher Brill has expressed interest in offering Bookmetrix for its own books and Bookmetrix welcomes this opportunity moving forward as a first pilot. It will be the first time the Bookmetrix tool will be applied to the content of a publisher not part of Springer Nature.
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