Envision Announces Altmetric Attention Data Now Available in Library™ Scientific Content Management Software

Envision Pharma Group (‘Envision’), a leading Medical Affairs-focused scientific communications and technology solutions provider, announced today that Library – Envision’s searchable content management system for Medical Affairs materials, including publications and multimedia – will now feature attention data provided by our portfolio company, Altmetric.

The ‘impact’ of a peer-reviewed publication is an integral part of the assessment of the effectiveness of an individual publication or cumulatively, of a publication plan. While citations have long been considered the standard measure of publication impact, they may on occasions take months or years to emerge. The shift to an online publication environment and the rise of social media have allowed the real-time assessment of indicators of dissemination (eg, via Twitter), interest (eg, news coverage), and readership (eg, Mendeley). Envision has partnered with Altmetric, the leading provider of such metrics, to facilitate access to these informative data via the Library content management solution – part of the expanding iEnvision suite of medical project management software solutions.

Fully integrated into the publication details held within Library, Altmetric badges and associated attention scores provide constantly updated, at-a-glance indicators of the engagement relating to published articles, and permit click-through-access to the Altmetric.com website for more detailed information on the demographic, geographic, and contextual nature of these data please see Altmetric links below.

Library is built on the iEnvision™ Medical Project Management platform, purpose-built to meet the needs of Medical Affairs and related functions. Library can be fully integrated with current versions of Datavision® (publications management), as well as other third-party and corporate applications.

Russell Traynor, Envision’s Platform Director for iEnvision and former chair of the International Society of Medical Publication Professionals noted:

“We are excited to announce this collaboration and hope that the addition of Altmetric data to Library will provide additional insights and value to the users of our solutions.”

Catherine Williams, Chief Marketing Officer, of Altmetric commented:

“We’re really pleased to see Envision integrating our data and badges into the Library platform. The attention insights provided will be useful for pharmaceutical companies and communications agencies in assessing the performance of their own publications as well as those of their competitors, and will be a powerful tool for more informed strategic planning.”

You can read the official announcement over on Altmetric’s press release section.