Posts by: Marianne Parkhill

Taylor & Francis recently published their annual Open Access Survey. This is a survey they conducted of the authors they published during 2012. What interested us about the survey were the responses concerning usage statistics. Sixty percent of the respondents said that usage and download statistics will become important for assessing the value of research over the next ten years. Read More

One of the things we looked forward to when considering our EBSCO acquisition was more collaboration between our companies. So, it is exciting to announce that PlumX^TM now includes usage metrics for articles and books from EBSCO Databases, Read More

Autism Speaks is set to use PlumX^TM to track the research impact of the research they fund. Autism Speaks is the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, Read More

When we started working with all of the metrics that we could gather from the data exhaust created when people interacted with research we quickly realized three things: Not all metrics are created equal, a download is not the same as a tweet. Read More

At ALA Midwinter, Mike Buschman  did a session called “Introducing PlumX”.  We were lucky enough to be able to record that session. If you’d like to see this 45-minute session starring Mike you can see it here. Read More

If you are going to ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia please stop by booth #1871 to say hi to us and see a demo of PlumX. Here are some other places you can catch us besides the exhibit hall: ACRL STS Hot Topics Discussion Group What: Come and join the STS Hot Topics Discussion Group as we address the issue of Altmetrics! Read More

Here at Plum^TM Analytics we were happy to learn that Library Journal selected PlumX as the Most Ambitious Database of 2013 in their annual roundup of award-winning databases. Library Journal compared the winners to movie studios with Plum Analytics equated to a producer of an Indie film, Read More

At Plum^TM Analytics, we often blog about new features and other new developments for PlumX, the product that processes big data to bring you information about research impact. Here are some of our previous blog posts you may have missed about important features and functions. Read More

On Monday, October 14, I was happy to be part of a panel at the World Social Science Forum in Montreal. The panel was put together and moderated by Gregg Gordon from SSRN, and my presentation was entitled, “Altmetrics in Practice.” The audience was especially interested in measuring research output beyond articles—and books in particular. Read More