Altmetric Badges for Books Launch Across Routledge Handbooks Online

Routledge Handbooks Online, a Taylor & Francis platform, brings together the world’s leading scholars to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today.Today, they have launched Altmetric Badges for Books across their platform to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received.

Available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book Number), the Altmetric donut badges and associated details page provide authors, editors and readers with a real-time record of mentions from mainstream media, public policy documents, online reference managers, blogs, social media, and post-publication peer review platforms.

The Altmetric badges are embedded on book and chapter pages allowing readers to view the details page, which provides a collated record of all of the online mentions. Covering topics as disparate as archaeology, law, climate change, politics, religion and tourism, the handbooks span an exceptional list of books by many of the greatest thinkers and scholars of the last 100 years.

David Cox, Director of Digital Products at Taylor & Francis says of the news:

“Altmetric badges for book content is something I’m really excited about. Users are telling us that traditional scholarly measures of impact are not enough anymore, and Badges for Books will mean that we are able to address that need by exposing more of the attention and engagement that content of all types gets. With the display of badges for books and chapters, we believe the users of Routledge Handbooks Online will find it easier to make informed decisions about what to read.”

Altmetric Founder Euan Adie adds

“We see the release of Badges for Books as a great opportunity to apply our technology to help authors, editors and readers to more easily discover how a book is being received, to get credit for their work, and to better engage with a wider audience. Imagine a world where you can not only see immediate reactions from readers, but understand how their responses resonate amongst the global community. It’s fascinating.”

You can now discover Altmetric Badges for Books on Routledge Handbooks Online.