Research Reveals PlumX from Plum Analytics is Not Just Altmetrics Recently, Plum Analytics President Andrea Michalek spent time with author J. Michael Lindsay, MSIS, AHIP, Associate Professor, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Graduate Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. 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
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
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
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
Today we announced adding the PlumTM Print to EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) and EBSCOhost® databases. The Plum Print is a visualization of the altmetrics gathered for each research artifact. Read More
We recently announced a new kind of altmetric, a clinical citation. You can read more about it on this recent blog post. On May 26, 2016 we held a webinar diving into more detail about clinical impact and what Plum Analytics is doing with Clinical Citations. Read More
Plum Analytics Peeks into the Sci-Hub Top 100 Downloads By now I think everyone involved in performing research, publishing research, communicating research, and more is aware of what Sci-Hub is. If you are not, I highly recommend this Science Magazine article titled, 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