The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) will use Impact Vizor visual analytics suite from HighWire Press to inform strategic decisions for its journals program. Impact Vizor can help the AATS evaluate trends and identify the impact of articles across its publishing program, including the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Impact Vizor helps data analysts, non-technical staff, and editors frame questions using common criteria such as citation data to uncover trends. Vizors generate quick-to-understand visualisations that normalise and integrate proprietary manuscript data with data from several sources, including citation data from CrossRef and Scopus, saves to Mendeley, and social shares. Previously, this data has been difficult to obtain, time-consuming to integrate, and required specialized skills to analyse effectively.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery attracts many authors and readers from the international cardiothoracic surgical community, and Impact Vizor assists efforts to provide information important to surgeons around the world.
More than twenty publishers use HighWire's Vizors visual analytics suite. Vizor suites are developed in collaboration with several publishers — from product concept to post-launch. John Sack, Founding Director, continues to work closely with publishers who implement the Impact Vizor platform to develop the product for rapid insights and answers to publisher's most pressing questions. Impact Vizor was a finalist for the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award in 2015.
HighWire launched Usage Vizor, its second suite of Vizor visual analytics, to help publishers analyse institutional usage and demand for content. Sales and marketing teams, as well as editorial teams discover insights to inform a variety of program strategies and communications to customers and readers. Additional Vizor analytic suites are planned in 2017.
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