- Add EasyList and EasyPrivacy filter subscriptions to Adblock Plus
- Go to http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
- Click on the "Metrics" tab
- See that the Altmetric badge fails to load (showing a grey donut with a question mark in the center)
The Altmetric badge should load showing a breakdown of attention for this scientific article. This is a coloured visualisation of attention with a legend detailing the amount of mainstream media coverage, public engagement, etc.
See article metrics on other scientific journals:
e.g.
- Annals of Surgery, http://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/fulltext/2017/04000/It_s_Time_to_Adopt_Electronic_Prescriptions_for.12.aspx
- Nutrition and Health, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/metrics/10.1177/0260106014537146
- Current Biology (the smaller "Altmetric" badge under "Article info"), http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(17)30198-7
28 days ago, altmetric.com was added to easyprivacy_trackingservers.txt in this commit with the message "http://www.tandfonline.com/". This may be due to the fact that Taylor & Francis Online originally integrated article metrics into the ad banner section of their page layout making it seem like Altmetric are an advertising tracker but the pages have since been redesigned, moving the badge to a dedicated Metrics section.
The presence of altmetric.com on the filter list means that the badge code is unable to communicate with api.altmetric.com which loads article metrics for a given scholarly identifier (typically a DOI such as "10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108"). This affects all journals and institutional repositories using the Altmetric badge code.
As the Altmetric badge is not a tracking script or information collector (beyond HTTP request logs to its API which are only used to measure usage and adhering to the privacy policy detailed at https://www.altmetric.com/privacy-policy/) but rather a visualisation for displaying article metrics for scholarly literature, would it be possible to remove altmetric.com from easyprivacy_trackingservers.txt?
(Confusingly, while Altmetric describes itself as "tracking conversation about science", this is done by processing the Twitter firehose, text-mining news, blog RSS feeds and policy documents to aggregate public discourse about science and never through tracking scripts, web bugs, etc.)
