PlumX Metrics are a primary source of article metrics, providing insights into the ways people interact with research in the online environment. By categorizing the metrics into five categories – Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media and Citations, PlumX helps makes sense of a large amount of metrics data and enables analysis by comparing metrics that are compatible. Read More
In 2017, we began our partnership with SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online: http://www.scielo.org). SciELO was founded in Brazil in 1997 and is a publicly-funded initiative aiming to support cooperative, free electronic publishing and dissemination of scientific journals from developing countries. Read More
Expanding our metric sources to include regional content has been something PlumX is very proud of, whether it is offering citation metrics from the Airiti, CSCD or SciELO or expanding our coverage of Wikipedia to include editions beyond the flagship English version. Read More
In PlumX Metrics, we have 3 citation metric categories that help demonstrate the societal impact of a piece of research output – Clinical, Patent and Policy citations. These citations help researchers, institutions and funders demonstrate public engagement with their research. When we first started incorporating policy citations back in 2017, Read More
Evaluation is inseparable from the research enterprise. The ways in which research is evaluated – from simple metrics to sophisticated national assessments – have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Supporting its aim to support research on research, the International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) launched ICSR Lab as a tool for researchers to conduct that work. Read More
We have been happy to have been able to continue to include EBSCO Usage and Capture data, as well as clinical citations from DynaMed Plus Topics, after our move from EBSCO to Elsevier in 2017. Effective November 1, 2020, PlumX Metrics will no longer be receiving usage and capture metrics from EBSCO and PlumX Metrics will no longer appear in EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service. Read More
Patents are one of 3 types of metrics currently in PlumX that can demonstrate societal impact – how a piece of research impacts an economy, culture, public policy, health, or the environment. Patents, in particular, can demonstrate economic impact. In PlumX, Read More
We are pleased to announce that PlumX Metrics — including citations, media mentions, tweets and more — are now integrated into all Digital Commons dashboards. Administrators, authors, journal editors and others now have easy and efficient access to a greater variety of metrics to build powerful pictures of usage and impact. Read More
The Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), established in 1989 by the National Science Library at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and contains journals in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology, agriculture and forestry science, medicine and health, engineering technology, Read More
In 2013, PlumX Metrics partnered with OCLC to add WorldCat® library book holdings* as a usage metric. Holdings are an important metric to help librarians, researchers and others to understand the impact of research in disciplines where books represent a significant portion of the research output. Read More