PlumX As a Potential Tool to Assess the Macroscopic Multidimensional Impact of Books Torres Salinas, Daniel Gumpenberger, Christian Gorraiz, Juan Altmetrics Bibliometrics Plumx Books Altmetrics Usage metrics The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2017.00005/ full#supplementary-material. The main purpose of this macro-study is to shed light on the broad impact of books. For this purpose, the impact of a very large collection of books (more than 200,000) has been analyzed by using PlumX, an analytical tool providing a great number of different metrics provided by various tools. Furthermore, the study also describes the changes in the values of the most significant measures and indicators over time. The results show that the usage counts in comparison to the other metrics are quantitatively predominant. Catalog holdings and reviews represent a book’s most characteristic measures deriving from its increased level of impact in relation to prior results. Our results also corroborate the long half-life of books within the scope of all metrics, excluding views and social media. Despite some disadvantages, PlumX has proved to be a very helpful and promising tool for assessing the broad impact of books, especially because of how easy it is to enter the ISBN directly as well as its algorithm to aggregate all the data generated by the different ISBN variations. 2017-07-06T07:32:08Z 2017-07-06T07:32:08Z 2017-07-03 journal article Torres-Salinas, D.; Gumpenberger, C.; Gorraiz, J. PlumX As a Potential Tool to Assess the Macroscopic Multidimensional Impact of Books, 2: 5 (2017). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/47114] 2504-0537 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/47114 10.3389/frma.2017.00005 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Frontiers Research Foundation