HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that twenty-one publishers now use Impact Vizor, a suite of interactive, visualised analytics viewers launched in August 2015. Impact Vizor was an ALPSP 2015 Award for Innovation in Publishing finalist. Today publishers use the seven dashboards in Impact Vizor to visualise, analyse and compare editorial programs for rapid insights. HighWire developed the tools with critical input from several publishers. At the HighWire Community meeting recently held at Stanford, publishers shared several ways they use Impact Vizor to evaluate and develop their publishing programs.
Impact Vizor helps non-technical publishing staff and editors easily frame questions and interpret the data to gain insights into the impact of publishing decisions, including the decision to reject an article. HighWire customises Impact Vizor for each publisher by integrating its proprietary manuscript data with data from several sources, including citation data from CrossRef and Scopus, saves to Mendeley, and social shares. Previously, this data was difficult to obtain, time-consuming to integrate and interrogate, and required specialized skill sets.
The highly visual data representations provide a view to the publication history of any article, from initial submission to its final publication in any journal. American Chemical Society (ACS) has used the Rejected Article Tracker (R.A.T.) viewer to evaluate manuscript flow across journals.
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