Posts by: Marianne Parkhill

It is important to us to provide a  worldwide and comprehensive picture of research impact to enable customers in all regions to tell the stories of their research. Here is a round-up of our announcements about new research metrics from around the world. Read More

Check out this infographic from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai about the notable articles they published in 2016.   Read More

Finding references to research in policy documents is important because there are new demands on researchers and those who support them to demonstrate public engagement with their research, its impact on government policy and cultural life, and societal impact in general. Read More

In a 2012 article titled, “Tracking the impact of research on policy and practice: investigating the feasibility of using citations in clinical guidelines for research evaluation” the authors stated: One of the most challenging areas of research evaluation is around impact on policy and practice. Read More

We help researchers tell the stories of their research through metrics and analytics. One area that can be disenfranchised by traditional methods for analyzing impact is clinical research. In a 2013 article titled, “Citation Analysis May Severely Underestimate the Impact of Clinical Research as Compared to Basic Research” Read More

We created an infographic of the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In it we pointed out that we track metrics on 67 different types of output. Tracking anything is a challenge. To track a piece of research you need a way to identify it. Read More

We recently created an Infographic to describe what research PlumX tracks and discovered some interesting facts about what our customers consider research. Just two examples of different artifacts we’ve heard about recently from our customers are a YouTube video of a musical score created by a music professor and an important book written by a psychology faculty member. Read More

Humanities and Social Science Are Not Cited As Often Citation counts have long been the tried and true measure of academic research usage and impact. Specifically, published articles in prominent journals citing other published articles in other prominent journals equate to prestige and tenure. Read More

Dog Days of Summer have you on vacation? Not so much in altmetrics and definitely not here at Plum Analytics. Our development team has been very busy in the last four months. We’ve announced a lot of PlumX product news. Here’s a quick round up of our important product developments: Clinical Citations (May 12, Read More