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ORCID and Plum Analytics Work Together to Easily Provide Altmetric Information to Researchers

Posted: September 11, 2014 by Marianne Parkhill

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. Read More

Webinar Replay: Plum Analytics and Our Approach to Altmetrics

Posted: September 3, 2014

On July 31, Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics President and co-founder, presented an hour-long webinar about altmetrics in general and PlumX, our research impact metrics dashboard, in particular. You can watch that replay on YouTube here. Read More

PlumX Adds Further Book Support with Goodreads Metrics

Posted: August 21, 2014 by Marianne Parkhill

Plum Analytics^TM considers books an important research output or artifact, as demonstrated by our use of OCLC WorldCat metrics (see this blog for more information). We are now expanding our support of books with metrics from Goodreads. Read More

PlumX Includes Usage Metrics from EBSCO

Posted: June 26, 2014 by Marianne Parkhill

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

Visualizing Impact: The Plum Print

Posted: June 5, 2014 by Andrea Michalek

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 Plum^TM 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

Single Sign On: PlumX is Shibboleth Enabled

Posted: May 28, 2014 by Andrea Michalek

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

Plum Analytics Session at ALA MW

Posted: March 19, 2014

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

Favorites from the Archives

Posted: November 4, 2013 by Marianne Parkhill

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

Expanding the Tracking of Impact of Books on the PlumX Platform

Posted: October 29, 2013 by Marianne Parkhill

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

PlumX – Beta No More!

Posted: October 14, 2013 by Andrea Michalek

Last week, coinciding with our launch of our widget platform, we reached the milestone of moving PlumX out of beta. The earliest adopters of our research dashboards, the University of Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian, have made their PlumX directories public. Read More