Total-impact is in early beta. We’re releasing early and often in this rapid-push stage, which means that we (and our awesome early-adopting users!) are finding some bugs. As a result of early code, a bit of bad data had made it into our total-impact database. It affected only a few items, but even a few [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
We created total-impact’s “@totalpimpactdev” Twitter account a while ago, as a way to keep our small group of developers and early users enlooped about changes to the code. Since then, total-impact has matured past the point where only developers care. So, we’re updating our Twitter handle accordingly: we’re now tweeting from @totalimpactorg. If you follow [...]
We want to build a product users want. No, actually, we want to build a product users *need*. A product that solves pain, that solves problems. Best way to know what the problems are? Get out of the building and ask. So, dear potential-future-users: where are you currently feeling real pain about tracking the impact [...]
A lot of users have pointed out that it’s hard to get lists of articles into total-impact: you can cut and paste DOIs, but most people don’t have those on hand. Today we’re launching an awesome new feature to fix that: importing from Google Scholar “My Citations” profiles. To use it, just visit your profile [...]
We’ve added some cool new metrics to total-impact: number of citations by papers in PMC, number of citations by review papers in PMC, number of citations by editorials in PMC, the number of student readers in Mendeley (roughly, based on top-three reported job descriptions) the number of Mendeley readers from developing countries (again, roughly) a “F1000 Yes” note if an [...]
As of yesterday, I (Jason) have joined Heather in Vancouver for what we’re calling the Megasprint: two months of 12hr-day, take-no-prisoners, hardcore hacking on total-impact. We’re working toward the mid-September release of our next version, codenamed Bruce (total-impact sounds like an action movie name…why fight it). Bruce will be our first heavily-publicized release (there will [...]
