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More and more, policymakers are expecting scientists to demonstrate the value of their research to society. While peer review and bibliometrics have become accepted methods for assessing the impact research has on other research, there is currently no established framework that addresses the impact of research on the broader society. Read More

We recently expanded PlumX metrics with a new addition in our Captures category: CiteULike readership. CiteULike is a web-based social bookmarking tool that aims to promote the sharing of citations to academic papers. Users can store, share, Read More

Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website globally.[1] The online encyclopedia contains about 0.5 – 1.0 million scientific articles, but scientists still rarely cite them as a source of knowledge in their papers. However, this does not mean that they are not reading Wikipedia articles. Read More

We are very happy to participate in the 4:AM conference this year. One of the ways we are supporting it is by providing blog content. I wrote about “Why clinical citations deserve their own metric” stating and highlighting an article about immunization for Streptococcus pneumoniae infections and the clinical citations it has received (see below). Read More

PlumX now looks for references to scholarly works in more News sources, from more countries around the world than ever. With the addition of News mentions from Newsflo, a media monitoring company acquired by Elsevier in 2015, PlumX now scours over 55,000 different news sources from 191 different countries – Read More

It is important to us to provide a  worldwide and comprehensive picture of research impact to enable customers in all regions to tell the stories of their research. Here is a round-up of our announcements about new research metrics from around the world. Read More

I’m excited to announce that Plum Analytics is being acquired by Elsevier. You can read more about it through the official press release or my article on Elsevier Connect. Both EBSCO and Elsevier, and of course those of us at Plum Analytics, Read More

Research Reveals PlumX from Plum Analytics is Not Just Altmetrics Recently, Plum Analytics President Andrea Michalek spent time with author J. Michael Lindsay, MSIS, AHIP, Associate Professor, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Graduate Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Read More

Both researchers and academic publishers in developing countries face an uphill battle when they seek to make an impact in their fields on the global stage. Researchers need both access to academic content to stay abreast of research developments, and a forum to publish results of their research that might get the attention the research deserves. Read More