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
This is the first part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In this first one, we explore the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when aggregated. 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
As fall arrives, I’m looking back at some of the conferences and meetings that we attended over the summer. The VIVO annual conference was in Denver in August, and for us, it was both successful and enlightening. The conference centered on people interesting in or already using VIVO and offered a collaborative atmosphere to talk about adopting and implementing VIVO and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing. Read More
In May we used PlumX to analyze the altmetrics of the Sci-Hub Downloads data released by Science Magazine. We wrote a blog post about our findings and posted the PlumX altmetrics dataset that we used for our analysis on Figshare. Read More
We get questions from folks every now and then why we don’t use Journal Impact Factor to evaluate a particular article. We often retort that “there are good articles in low JIF journals, and bad articles in high JIF journals.” We can also discuss how retraction rates in high JIF journals are significantly higher than in low JIF journals. Read More
by Noella Natalino, Product and Content Manager, Plum Analytics This week I attended the FORCE11 Conference in my hometown of Portland, OR. Since then, I have been thinking about personal/professional evolution and story-telling, inspired by Cesar Hidalgo’s talk, Read More
Against the Grain is a publication “linking publishers, vendors & librarians.” In a recent issue they published an article titled, “Altmetrics: Documenting the Story of Research” by: Lauren B. Collister, Read More
