We get questions from folks every now and then why we don’t use Journal Impact Factor to evaluate a particular article. We often retort that “there are good articles in low JIF journals, and bad articles in high JIF journals.” We can also discuss how retraction rates in high JIF journals are significantly higher than in low JIF journals. Read More
Today we announced adding the PlumTM Print to EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) and EBSCOhost® databases. The Plum Print is a visualization of the altmetrics gathered for each research artifact. Read More
We recently announced a new kind of altmetric, a clinical citation. You can read more about it on this recent blog post. On May 26, 2016 we held a webinar diving into more detail about clinical impact and what Plum Analytics is doing with Clinical Citations. Read More
From timeliness to self-citations, much has been written about why citation metrics are flawed — but that is not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about moving the conversation about citations forward to include clinical impact. Clinical research does not get cited as much as basic science. Read More
by Noella Natalino, Product and Content Manager, Plum Analytics This week I attended the FORCE11 Conference in my hometown of Portland, OR. Since then, I have been thinking about personal/professional evolution and story-telling, inspired by Cesar Hidalgo’s talk, Read More
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
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