Scholarship@Western
Scholarship@Western is Western University’s institutional repository (a digital collection that captures and preserves the intellectual output of Western). Researchers who have uploaded publications to Scholarship@Western can find altmetric data through their Author Dashboards or a monthly email report. It provides accurate download counts, and includes country and institutional affiliation of the download when available.
Example of Readership Map
Scholarship@Western also contains embedded Altmetric.com “badges,” which provide Altmetric.com data for uploaded publications with DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). Click the badge for details about the retrieved mentions.
Example of Scholarship@Western download counts and Altmetric badge
Limitations:
- Scholarship@Western only provides usage statistics for uploaded publications. Scholarship@Western does not aggregate usage statistics from other platforms on which the publications are posted.
- The embedded Altmetric.com badges require a DOI to find data. For more limitations on Altmetric.com data see the Altmetric.com page
