The Dublin Business School (DBS), Ireland’s largest independent third level college, is the first institution in Ireland to take advantage of the modern metrics provided by PlumX to help tell the stories of their faculty’s research output and promote its value to current and prospective students. Read More
Modern Metrics Will Measure CABI Authors’ Research Output in Innovative Ways We are excited about our new partnership with CABI. CABI is an international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Read More
The term altmetrics means different things to different people. At Plum Analytics it means any metrics about any type of research output. It is common knowledge that the ubiquitous use of the Internet has made sharing everything, including research, simple. With all of the different ways to share output come different ways to understand the impact and stories of research. Read More
PlumX tracks 5 categories of metrics: usage, mentions, social media, citations, and captures. Metrics that we categorize as captures are when an individual is interacting with research online and “captures” it for later. Examples of capture metrics that are already a part of PlumX are: Bookmarking the page on Delicious Adding it to Elsevier’s Mendeley as a reader Favoriting a slide presentation on Slideshare Favoriting a video on YouTube Subscribing to a channel on Vimeo or YouTube Followers, Read More
We recently updated the types of artifacts that we support to better reflect the diversity of research documents that our customers want to track. Giving customers flexibility in how they manage their research output collection is a hallmark of PlumX, and is critical to being able to do an accurate assessment. Read More
Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), recently reviewed PlumX for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). In this review, Robin does an excellent job of describing PlumX and what it does. Read More
Library Journal and Plum Analytics are sponsoring a webinar titled “Practical Uses of Altmetrics” on Wednesday, Feb. 11th at 1:00 PM EST. This webinar features two PlumX customers: Tim Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head, Read More
Mike Buschman, Co-Founder and Chief Product Office of Plum Analytics was recently interviewed for The Charleston Advisor. Some highlights from the interview include: “It is true that traditionally the term “altmetrics” refers to Social Media… As such, Read More
The rise of the Internet and increasing journal prices helped pave the way for the open access movement. Now the rise of networked communication and the associated metrics can provide more advantages for researchers to use their institutions’ repositories for open access versions of their research papers. Read More
We are thrilled to release the first version of our new analytics reporting feature, PlumX Analytics. From the beginning, our vision was to give people who perform, support and fund research easier ways to answer their questions and tell the stories about the research. Read More