摘要：Ifscholarly communication is broken, howwillwefix it? At Impactstory—a non-profit devoted to helping scholars gatherand shareevidence of their research impact by tracking online usage ofscholarship via blogs, Wikipedia, Mendeley,and more—we believethat incentivizingweb-native research viaaltmetrics is the placeto start. In thisarticle, we describethecurrentstate oftheart in altmetricsand itseffects on publishing, weshare Impactstory’s plan to build an open infrastructureforaltmetrics,and describe ourcompany’sethosand actions.
