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 have a long relationship with ORCID and support what they do. We get a lot of questions about and interest in ORCID, so I decided to share some recent articles and blog posts about them. Why Some Publishers are Requiring ORCID iDs for Authors: An Interview with Stuart Taylor, Read More
If your New Year’s resolution was to learn a bit more about research metrics, we’re here to help. Meaningful Metrics The book Meaningful Metrics by Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt was recently made available in open access and is 251 pages chock full of background reading about bibliometrics, 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
The Mount Sinai Levy Library wants their research faculty to take part in testing and using PlumX. As they describe it: PlumX gathers metrics for many types of scholarly research output and creates enhanced researcher profiles. To understand more about PLUMx and this project, 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
The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. The university has 27 research departments and inter-departmental research centers. There is a wide variety of disciplines including Nuclear Physics, Economics and Philosophy. Due to this wide range of disciplines and scholars, Read More
