Recently we announced a partnership with ACI Information Group to bring more blog post mentions to PlumX. ACI individually curates blogs through researchers with expertise in each blog’s topic or field of study in a variety of academic and research disciplines. Read More

This guest blog is written by Andy Herzog, Department Head of Faculty Services and Online Engagement for the University of Texas Arlington Libraries. He is heading up a program to help support faculty members through the process of promotion and tenure. 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 the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In that process we took a look at how many books and book chapters PlumX tracks. As you can see above, PlumX tracks 4.1 million books and book chapters. Read More

In order to tame the big data of all the possible online interactions with all the different types of research output, PlumX categorizes them into 5 categories. Each category tells a different story of research. Read More

Our customer, the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Levy Library, is working with their departments to drive deeper into their university faculty structures to educate researchers and recruit them to understanding and embracing altmetrics. Mount Sinai’s Levy Library is featuring Article Spotlights each month using PlumX. 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

The Analytics Reports within the PlumX Suite help users gain insights, drive decision-making and understand where the interesting stories in a body of research are taking place. Two recently-released improvements to these reports add flexibility and allow you to see and dive into the altmetrics for your research corpus, Read More

As our customers have been using PlumX to build a comprehensive scholarly record about the outputs of their researchers, departments and grants, we have been asked to use this data to go beyond calculating altmetrics about the outputs, but also to perform analysis around their productivity.  Read More