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At Plum Analytics, we are constantly adding metrics and features to help our users get a thorough picture of research, researchers and the groups to which they belong. To that end, the Plum^TM Analytics product, PlumX, is now utilizing the OCLC WorldCat API to capture library holdings.   Read More

We are happy to tell you that we’ve been working with Utah State University (USU) and they have joined the growing list of PlumX customers. The librarians at the university set up a pilot program of researchers to experiment with different types of metrics to see the how they portray different individuals and their affiliated groups. Read More

We have recently added a feature where populating a PlumX researcher profile is as easy as creating a link to an existing VIVO profile. (VIVO is an open source semantic web application that is used in >30 countries and being implemented in more than 100 institutions.) So, Read More

For our customers, we have mechanisms in place for bulk importing data from existing systems to fuel: What is the hierarchy of data that you are interested in? What researchers are affiliated with the different groups? What artifacts are associated with particular researchers or groups? Read More

We’re excited to announce that we now include patents as a type of research output that is tracked by PlumX. When setting up a profile for a researcher, lab, or other group that you are interested in tracking, we now take a USPTO patent id as a contribution you can track. Read More

A few weeks ago, we announced new features on how we group metrics by category, and allow for quickly seeing what sort of engagement is happening around each article, presentation, dataset, video, etc. We are pleased to announce the companion feature to this, Read More

In our latest release of PlumX, we have made improvements to the display metrics of the impact of artifacts, researchers and groups they are affiliated with.  Highlights include: metrics previews when searching for a researcher, a significant redesign to make the metrics on the data table more digestible, Read More