Let's stop wandering the altmetrics grocery store

We can develop standard categories for the growing set of altmetrics to give us the right—i.e., best suited for our particular need—measurements of the type of impact for the research outputs at hand. As we discuss in the article Altmetrics in Evolution, published Tuesday in Information Standards Quarterly, PLOS embarked on an effort to renegotiate all its existing categories used in displaying its ALMs and forming the analytic infrastructure that power the journals' navigational tools. Timed with the publication of the article, this week we have launched a redesigned metrics tab that uses these new categories.