Usage Metrics

Article level usage metrics are the number one statistic that researchers want to know after their citation counts.

  • Is anyone reading our work?
  • Did anyone watch our videos?

PlumX is unique in combining artifact-level Usage data with other artifact-level metrics. Below is a listing of the current Usage metrics that PlumX supports, and the providers of the data.

Metrics as of December 8, 2023

Metric Source(s) Description
Abstract Views Airiti iRead eBooks, Airiti Library, CABI, Digital Commons, DSpace, ePrints, Expert Gallery Suite, RePEc, SciELO, SSRN The number of times the abstract of an artifact has been viewed
Clicks bit.ly The number of clicks of a URL
Collaborators GitHub The number of collaborators of an artifact
Downloads Airiti iRead eBooks, Airiti Library, Digital Commons, Dryad, DSpace, ePrints, Expert Gallery Suite, figshare, Github, Institutional Repositories, Mendeley Data, Pure (for select customers only), RePEc, Slideshare, SSRN The number of times an artifact has been downloaded
Full Text Views Airiti iRead eBooks, CABI, OJS Journals, PLOS, PubMedCentral (for PLOS articles only), SciELO The number of times the full text of an article has been viewed
Holdings WorldCat The number of libraries that hold the book artifact
Plays Digital Commons, Vimeo, YouTube, SoundCloud The number of times the video or audio has been played
Views Mendeley Data, Dryad, figshare, Slideshare The number of times the artifact has been viewed

To see the changes we have made to our metrics go to our audit log.