The Levy Library of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a PlumX customer, recently participated in authoring an article, “The Complexity of Measuring the Impact of Books,” published online in June and in print in Publishing Research Quarterly, Read More
In June we announced that EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) users would start seeing the PlumTM Print in the result lists. Earlier, we added the Plum Print to the result list in the CINAHL database on EBSCOhost. Read More
Recently we announced a partnership with ACI Information Group to bring more blog post mentions to PlumX. ACI individually curates blogs through researchers with expertise in each blog’s topic or field of study in a variety of academic and research disciplines. Read More
We help researchers tell the stories of their research through metrics and analytics. One area that can be disenfranchised by traditional methods for analyzing impact is clinical research. In a 2013 article titled, “Citation Analysis May Severely Underestimate the Impact of Clinical Research as Compared to Basic Research” Read More
This guest blog is written by Andy Herzog, Department Head of Faculty Services and Online Engagement for the University of Texas Arlington Libraries. He is heading up a program to help support faculty members through the process of promotion and tenure. Read More
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
We recently created an infographic to describe the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In that process we took a look at how many books and book chapters PlumX tracks. As you can see above, PlumX tracks 4.1 million books and book chapters. Read More
In order to tame the big data of all the possible online interactions with all the different types of research output, PlumX categorizes them into 5 categories. Each category tells a different story of research. Read More
We recently created an Infographic to describe what research PlumX tracks and discovered some interesting facts about what our customers consider research. Just two examples of different artifacts we’ve heard about recently from our customers are a YouTube video of a musical score created by a music professor and an important book written by a psychology faculty member. Read More
This is the first part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In this first one, we explore the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when aggregated. Read More