We just heard: total-impact has been awarded $125k by the Sloan Foundation! What’s this mean for users?  By April 1, 2013, we plan to hit important milestones in three areas:

Product:

• addition of over a dozen new information sources to total-impact.org, particularly data repositories
• 60 github watchers, 20 forks
• substantial innovation in user interfaces for and visualizations of altmetric data

Use:

• 50k visits to total-impact.org, 30k unique visitors
• at least 100 scholars embedding or linking to TI reports on their CV
• at least 25 TI reports included in annual review or tenure & promotion packages
• 15 publishers/repositories embedding total-impact data on articles/datasets
• 5 in-process or published research studies based on TI data

Sustainability: A sustainable business plan and organizational model for a mission‐driven TI organization

For more detail, see the grant proposal.

We are so excited! Thanks to Josh Greenberg, program director.  You won’t regret it 🙂 As always, let us know if you’ve got thoughts or ideas on how we can best make these goals happen. Now let’s go change the world!