Scientific Open Access Publisher First to Provide Citation Badges for Books
Today at the STM Conference, an annual gathering of the STM publishing community, IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, announced the first ever implementation of Dimensions Badges by a book publisher.
IntechOpen is the market leader in scientific publishing of Open Access books with more than 3,350 published OA books to date and 1.7 million downloads of scientific chapters and books in the last year. More than 107,500 researchers, including Nobel Prize laureates, have published their research on the IntechOpen platform.
The Dimensions Badges, which are now available on all IntechOpen book pages, showcase the number of citations a book has received from other scholarly publications indexed in Dimensions, a research insights database that enables users to explore over 4 billion connections between more than 128 million articles, books, clinical trials, patents and other research outputs.
By clicking on the badges, readers of IntechOpen books can see further detail on the frequency of citations, where they have come from, and how they compare with other similar books.
“After publishing their research, academic authors’ most important need is to know where it is cited, which is why we jumped to implement Dimension Badges which are both visually pleasing and thought-provoking,” said Alex Lazinica, CEO/Co-founder of IntechOpen. “Dimensions Badges go even a step further – helping users to see how the citations of one publication compare to others in its field, providing a more in-depth picture of research influence.”
“We are delighted that InTech Open has been so quick to embed Dimensions Badges and help their authors and readers easily visualize how the scientific community cites the vast amount of research contained in InTech Open’s impressive portfolio of OA books,” said Nicko Goncharoff, Chief Business Development Officer at Digital Science.
The badges are live now and can be found on IntechOpen books pages.
About IntechOpen
Founded in 2004, IntechOpen, the first native scientific publisher of Open Access books, provides a collaborative environment for peer-reviewed scholarly content and book publishing of academic research, giving scientific thinking its home. The scientific community of editors, authors, funders and librarians worldwide benefit from open access research dissemination, ensuring faster spreading and advancement of scientific knowledge. The company’s global headquarter is in London, UK. www.intechopen.com