Expanding our metric sources to include regional content has been something PlumX is very proud of, whether it is offering citation metrics from the Airiti, CSCD or SciELO or expanding our coverage of Wikipedia to include editions beyond the flagship English version. Read More
Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website globally.[1] The online encyclopedia contains about 0.5 – 1.0 million scientific articles, but scientists still rarely cite them as a source of knowledge in their papers. However, this does not mean that they are not reading Wikipedia articles. Read More
This is the second part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In the first, we explored the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when we aggregated them.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
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