ISMPP Social Media & Web Metrics Resources

Article Enhancements: A Beginners Guide

This resource, Article Enhancements: A Beginners Guide, and the accompanying article in The MAP newsletter, Beyond Words: How Voice, Graphics, and Video are Changing the Way Researchers Reach Audiences, seek to inform, educate, and answer questions about many of the ways authors are now able to present data and their findings to readers. This is not intended as a complete guide or a single resource to answer all your questions, but as a living document that will be updated to keep up with new developments in the ever-evolving and innovative world of journal publishing. Access the resource by clicking below:

Article Enhancements: A Beginners Guide

Understanding Altmetrics: What Are They, How Can You Use Them, and What Do They Mean?

This graphic article, titled Understanding Altmetrics: What Are They, How Can You Use Them, and What Do They Mean?, describes some of the key providers of altmetrics and their different approaches to capturing and synthesizing them, as well as differences in the types of metrics that can be obtained from different providers. It also shows how these different approaches can affect the metrics reported for an example publication. Access the graphic article by clicking below:

Understanding Almetrics graphic article

ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Glossary

The ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Glossary provides a listing of common terms applicable to social media and web-based metrics with corresponding definitions. Developed by the ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Working Group, the Glossary of Terms is available for members’ reference and can be accessed by clicking below:

ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Glossary

The ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Working Group was formed to develop and share best practices, and to foster a common understanding of how digital platforms and data can be used to effectively communicate medical research to multiple stakeholders and to track digital engagement.

Various resources are planned for release by the ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Working Group. Follow the Twitter hashtag - #ISMPP_SocialMedia_WebMetrics - for more information as resources are made available. Please note that the resources are presented for the use of ISMPP members in good standing only.


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ISMPP will grant limited permission to use the individual ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics resources for personal, noncommercial use by ISMPP members in good standing. Such use is permitted only if you accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license agreement. Please read this license carefully before entering this portion of the website and before using the ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics resources in any manner.

By using an ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics resource, you hereby accept and agree that: use of the resource, and its content, shall be for individual, personal, and noncommercial reference and use only; and the resource shall be used only pursuant to the terms of this license agreement. The ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics resource and its contents are proprietary information of ISMPP. The contents of the resource may not, in whole or in part, be reproduced, copied, disseminated, or otherwise utilized, in any form or manner or by any means, except for individual, personal, and noncommercial reference and use.


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ISMPP Publications Primer

ISMPP Standards Handbook

ISMPP Global Transparency Series

ISMPP Educational Slide Library