Scholastica, a leading software solutions provider for academic journals, has announced that its open access publishing platform now includes an Altmetric Badge integration option to help journals, their authors, and readers track alternative impact indicators for articles.
Journals subscribed to Scholastica’s open access publishing platform with a paid Altmetric account can enable the new integration to have Altmetric Badges automatically displayed on the public metrics page for all the articles they publish via Scholastica. Each Altmetric Badge links to an Altmetric details page that features a breakdown of online attention received by the article.
The new Altmetric Badge integration is part of Scholastica's ongoing efforts to empower small and medium academy journal publishers to produce and disseminate top-quality research more efficiently and affordably than traditional publishing software and partner options, so they can further their scholarly missions.
As alternative impact indicators have become more prevalent in academia, Altmetric Badges have become widely used across disciplines. Altmetric Badges enable journal publishers, their editors, authors, and readers to monitor and report on diverse research impacts beyond traditional bibliometric citations to capture the attention surrounding articles.
To use the Altmetric Badge integration, journals must first be subscribed to Scholastica’s Open Access Publishing Platform and have an active, paid Altmetric account. Those that meet both criteria can follow the steps in this help document to enable the integration.
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