The Top Books Published in 2017

A quick search for English-language Springer Nature books on Bookmetrix for the year 2017 yields over 7,000 titles. Some were published in early 2017, others not until December. Regardless, they made a big impact in 2017! We track download numbers on SpringerLink, citations are sourced from CrossRef.org and online mentions are provided by Altmetric.com. A whopping 47.5% of these books have had one or more online mentions (up from 42% in 2016), varying between news articles, tweets, blogs and other posts. 33% have had even three or more mentions! The average number of mentions per book increased to 6 in … Read more…

Bookmetrix Makes an Impact on 2016

By: Martijn Roelandse, Head of Publishing Innovation With the year-end in sight, it’s time to draw up the scores for Bookmetrix. It has been an energizing year with many new features and developments. Probably the most popular one is the Print book report, an easy way to print a summary of the reach and impact of your books. And boy was it in demand; we had 16,000 book report requests in the first month alone! Meanwhile we are adding more data to the platform so we can better service you in 2017. For example, book and conference series information, country and institution information, and … Read more…