We created an infographic of the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In it we pointed out that we track metrics on 67 different types of output. Tracking anything is a challenge. To track a piece of research you need a way to identify it. Read More
The Analytics Reports within the PlumX Suite help users gain insights, drive decision-making and understand where the interesting stories in a body of research are taking place. Two recently-released improvements to these reports add flexibility and allow you to see and dive into the altmetrics for your research corpus, Read More
We’re excited to announce a new feature in PlumX Dashboards: the ability to add researchers’ research profiles to multiple groups, and to move them between groups. Instead of relying on our PlumX support team to manage these changes, we’ve put this power into our users’ Read More
As our customers have been using PlumX to build a comprehensive scholarly record about the outputs of their researchers, departments and grants, we have been asked to use this data to go beyond calculating altmetrics about the outputs, but also to perform analysis around their productivity. Read More
Dog Days of Summer have you on vacation? Not so much in altmetrics and definitely not here at Plum Analytics. Our development team has been very busy in the last four months. We’ve announced a lot of PlumX product news. Here’s a quick round up of our important product developments: Clinical Citations (May 12, Read More
On June 23rd we announced that we were adding altmetrics via the PlumTM Print to EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). I am pleased to say that this is complete and the Plum Print is now visible in the result list and on the detail page. Read More
Two core elements of PlumX have a new look and feel: our profile editing pages and our altmetrics analytics reports. Our mission is to support anyone who funds, performs, supports, or publishes research in tracking and understanding its impact, attention and reach. Read More
We are always expanding our sources and the latest is DataCite. Founded on the principle that research datasets need persistent identifiers, DataCite expanded to assign DOIs to many types of non-traditional research outputs. Plum Analytics is now tracking these with DOIs from DataCite. Read More
If you look only at public comments on Facebook for a piece of research, you’re cheating yourself. The real news is in the total volume of all Facebook interactions. We’re not talking about a whisper campaign – it’s simply this: If you’re not seeing the full altmetrics picture, Read More
Usage data statistics are a valuable metric to researchers, second only to citations. Unlike other altmetrics providers, Plum Analytics has long included usage statistics as an important category of altmetrics. Now, research usage data for one of the largest Chinese e-journals content collections is available through the PlumX altmetrics suite. Read More