Demonstrating journal
impact: PlumX and OJS at
the University of Pittsburgh
Timothy Deliyannides
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
Library Publishing Coalition Webinar
April 26, 2016, 3:00PM EST
PlumX at Pitt
 Plum Analytics’ first customer (2012)
 PlumX is integrated with:
– Institutional Repository (d-scholarship.pitt.edu)
– 4 subject-based repositories
– Article-level ‘Plumprint’ appears for every digital object
 Aggregated views by:
– School, Program, Research Group
 Researcher profiles demonstrate total impact
ALTMETRICS for PUBLISHERS
What’s different about these new metrics?
 More comprehensive
– Citations, usage, social media
 Covers online behavior
– Because scholars increasingly work online
 Measures impact immediately
– Because citation counts take years to
appear in literature
What can publishers do with these metrics?
 Demonstrate value to stakeholders
– Authors and their institutions
– Editors and their sponsors (scholarly societies, universities)
– Research funders
 Gain insight
– Improve marketing/promotion strategies
– Identify top content
– Learn about what’s important to your publishing partners
 Improve quality of service offering
PLUMX and OJS:
How they work together at Pitt
 PlumX harvests new articles published in OJS
using OAI PMH protocol and begins tracking
metrics
 PlumX widget is embedded in article abstract page
using the OJS PlumX plugin
 The Plum Print displays current metrics each time a
reader views the article abstract
 PlumX Web site provides aggregated views of
analytic data by journal title, volume, publication
year, etc.
ARTICLE LEVEL METRICS
AGGREGATED JOURNAL
METRICS
OJS and PLUMX
Under the hood
Pitt’s work on integrating OJS & PlumX
 PlumX plugin for OJS
– Embeds PlumX widget in any OJS journal
– Developed by Clinton Graham, University of Pittsburgh
 SUSHI-Lite compliance for OJS
– Improves harvesting of OJS usage data at the article level
– Can be used by any external system (such as Plum
Analytics)
– Developed by Clinton Graham, University of Pittsburgh
The PlumX plugin for OJS
 Requirements:
– OJS 2.4 or a later release of OJS 2.x
– Articles must have DOIs
– Subscription to PlumX
 Setup: follow the instructions at
https://github.com/ulsdevteam/ojs-plum-plugin
– Install as a ‘generic plugin’ in OJS
– Log in as Journal Manager and enable the plugin
– Configure the widget display – highly customizable!
Configuring the Plugin
Home > User > Journal Manager > System Plugins > Generic Plugins > Plum Analytics Artifact Widget Settings
Plum Analytics Artifact Widget Settings
With this plugin enabled, the Plum Analytics Artifact widget will be added to your articles. The article's DOI will be used
to link to the PlumX artifact metrics. For details and examples of the different widget settings, please see the PlumX
Widget Page.
Widget Type *
Hide When Empty
Summary
✓
Show Border
Hide the PlumPrint
Popup Alignment
Display Orientation
Horizontal
Width
Display Widget *
Below the article’s abstract
Positioning the widget
OJS Header
Plum Analytics
Widget Block
Left
Sidebar
Above the
article’s title
Article Title
Article Abstract
Below the article’s abstract
Right
Sidebar
In the
article’s
page footer
Article Footer
OJS Footer
Plum Analytics
Widget Block
OJS and SUSHI-Lite
SUSHI-Lite compliance in OJS
 Alternative to the OJS COUNTER interface
 SUSHI-Lite focuses on article-level usage
 Uses standard Web services (REST, JSON, etc.)
 Ideal for on-demand and just-in-time usage
harvesting
 A better way to share usage data from OJS journals
SUSHI-Lite Plugin for OJS
 Developed by Pitt, but can be used by any OJS host
 Used by PlumX to harvest OJS usage data
 Based on NISO standard
 Can be used by any external system to harvest OJS
usage data
 Setup: follow the instructions at
https://github.com/ulsdevteam/ojs-sushiLite-plugin
More about PlumX at Pitt
URL for this presentation:
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/27813
Collister, Lauren Brittany and Deliyannides, Timothy S. (2016) Altmetrics:
Documenting the Story of Research. Against the Grain, 28 (1). pp. 16-18. ISSN 1043-2094.
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/27555
Collister, Lauren Brittany and Graham, Clinton T. (2016) Building a Bridge for Metrics
with SUSHI-Lite. Poster presented at SPARC Meeting on Openness in Research and
Education, 3/7/2016-3/8/2016, San Antonio, TX. http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26874
Deliyannides, Timothy S. (2015) Practical uses of Altmetrics at the University of
Pittsburgh. Webcast presented by Library Journal and Plum Analytics, February 11, 2015.
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23986
THANK YOU
Tim Deliyannides
tsd@pitt.edu
@deliyannides
PlumX at Pitt:
http://plu.mx/pitt
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
http://www.library.pitt.edu/oscp @OSCP_Pitt