Posts by: Andrea Michalek

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, or an Article by the Journal It Is Published In

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

A Midwinter Reading List

If your New Year’s resolution was to learn a bit more about research metrics, we’re here to help. Meaningful Metrics The book Meaningful Metrics by Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt was recently made available in open access and is 251 pages chock full of background reading about bibliometrics, Read More

Metrics for ALL

This post originally appeared on the 2:AM Conference blog as a guest blog from Andrea Michalek, the Co-Founder and President of Plum Analytics. Andrea shares her thoughts about the current state of altmetrics and opportunities for the future. Read More

PlumX Now Supports IP Authentication

PlumX now supports IP authentication to enable customers to have more granular control over access to their dashboards and data. IP authentication is one of the most popular methods for controlling access to enterprise applications, especially for customers with a large number of potential endusers that might want or need access without full log-in credentials. Read More

Visualizing Impact: The Plum Print

The key to quickly navigating complex data sets is to turn them into elegant, simple visualizations that do the hard work for you. We think our new PlumTM Print does exactly that. With one glance, it’s easy way to see the relative impact of each of the five categories of metrics – Read More

Metrics for the Expanding Digital Universe

As a self-professed data junkie, I always thoroughly enjoy the yearly Internet Trends presentation from Mary Meeker from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. One slide that jumped out talks about the very small percentage of data that is “tagged” and the even smaller amount of data that is “analyzed” in the Digital Universe. Read More

Single Sign On: PlumX is Shibboleth Enabled

We’re excited to announce that PlumX is Shibboleth enabled. Institutions and large enterprises can now authenticate PlumX in the way they are used to for subscription services. In addition the Shibboleth-enabled authorization also provides the identification process necessary to safeguard researchers’ profiles. Read More