Objective.It was proposed an altmetric index to identify the most consulted titles of Cuban publishers that distribute their contents on the e-Libro.
comacademic platform.
Design/Methodology/Approach.The Wally Index is defined as the quotient of the Ln (# queries) of a title between the maximum Ln (# queries)
of the set of titles evaluated in a defined period of time. The usefulness of
this Index was validated from the study of the distribution of titles of six Cuban publishers that include their titles in the academic platform e-Libro.com,during the period September 2016 - August 2017.
Results/Discussion.The Wally Index vs.# Titles of Cuban publishers
available on e-libro.comwere adjusted to the power model, with a Pearson correlation coefficient of R
2
= 0.7299, although titles with smaller
numbers of queries showed greater dispersion, so that evaluated this index with the collection of the 226 most consulted titles. With this sample,
the Wally Index normalized vs.ranking of the titles reached the value of
the Pearson correlation coefficients R
2
= 0.8992 with a logarithmic adjustment.
Conclusions.The use of the Wally Index is proposed for the evaluation of
the queries of a set of titles, selected under specific criteria, available on
Web platforms that provide data on the queries. The index is relative to
the collection of titles and is independent of the number of queries.
Originality/Value.The Wally Index can be used by any publisher who
wants to examine the queries that receive their titles in the web environment
