ImpactStory is the relaunched version of total-impact. Don’t miss the post by @jasonpriem and Heather Piwowar, published on the Impact of Social Science blog. They describe some of the highlights:
To use ImpactStory, start by pointing it to the scholarly products you’ve made: articles from Google Scholar Profiles, software on GitHub, presentations on SlideShare, and datasets on Dryad (and we’ve got more importers on the way).
Then we search over a dozen Web APIs to learn where your stuff is making an impact. Instead of the Wall Of Numbers, we categorize your impacts along two dimensions: audience (scholars or the public) and type of engagement with research (view, discuss, save, cite, and recommend).
In each dimension, we figure your percentile score compared to a baseline; in the case of articles, the baseline is “articles indexed in Web of Science that year.” If your 2009 paper has 17 Mendeley readers, for example, that puts you in the 87th-98th percentile of all WoS-indexed articles published in 2009 (we report percentiles as a range expressing the 95% confidence interval). Since it’s above the 75th percentile, we also give it a “highly saved by scholars” badge. Scanning the badges helps you get a sense of your collection’s overall strengths, while also letting you easily spot success stories.