We’ve just made it easier to create and update researcher academic profiles. Now you can automatically update PlumX profiles using RSS or Atom feeds – which news sites, blog platforms and other publishers use to broadcast regularly-changing web content. This feature delivers researchers faster recognition for activity and usage around their research. Read More
From timeliness to self-citations, much has been written about why citation metrics are flawed — but that is not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about moving the conversation about citations forward to include clinical impact. Clinical research does not get cited as much as basic science. Read More
Finding new funding for research is critical for researchers and those who support them in order for their research to continue. Yet, they are often frustrated with the tools available to help them. The key is striking the right balance between casting a wide net and providing relevant opportunities that are suitable based on a researcher’s history and current research focus. Read More
At Plum Analytics we often talk about telling the story of research. We mean many things by that. One of the things we mean is to use modern metrics to understand how your institution compares to its peers and leaders in any research field. Read More
As 2016 gets well underway we have a lot exciting plans for all five of the PlumX Suite products. But, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we want to take a moment and look back on some of the things we accomplished in 2015. Read More
How do you measure and benchmark your institution’s research performance? Traditionally, many academic benchmarking tools use citation analysis to measure and compare institutions’ research. However, citations are lagging indicators of impact, and they do not do some disciplines in the social sciences and humanities justice. Read More
We’re excited to launch changes to our PlumX Artifact pages throughout the PlumX Suite. These pages represent a single academic work and all its associated metrics. We’ve added new tabs for Tweets, Blog Mentions and News Mentions. Viewing all these public interactions with a researcher’s work has always been a key feature of PlumX, Read More
Recently I spoke at two conferences in the US – the UIDP (University Industry Demonstration Partnership) Conference in Knoxville, TN and the SRA (Society of Research Administrators) Conference in Las Vegas, NV. At each conference I demonstrated the power of the recently released PlumX Benchmarks product using fun local examples. Read More
