ALMs
aim to quantify the usage (downloads, views), impact (citations), saves
(bookmarks), and discussion (social media) of scholarly work at the
article level. ALMs comprise a set of easy-to-understand real-time
impact indicators that track how an article is read, discussed, or
cited. In contrast, traditional ways of measuring impact usually operate
at journal level, e.g. the Thomson Reuters journal impact factor.
The
ALM information is visible under the Metrics tab available for all
published articles. The usage is collected from individual accesses to
the Copernicus library servers (robot traffic is filtered), the impact
is counted from CrossRef and Google Scholar citations, the saves are
counted from CiteULike and Mendeley, and the discussions are represented
by Research Blogging, Facebook, ScienceSeeker, Nature Blogs, Wikipedia,
Wordpress.com, Reddit, and Google Blogs.
ALMs allow authors to
stay up-to-date with the influence and reach of their published articles
and share this information with peers, funding institutions and others.
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) launched ALMs in 2009 and made
their app available to other publishers. Now, from the end of October, Copernicus Publications implemented ALMs in their journals using the PLOS open source app.
Hope that this new feature will be beneficial for your work! More information can be found here.