Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, or an Article by the Journal It Is Published In

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

2015 PlumX Product Look Back

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

A Midwinter Reading List

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

Twitter, Blogs and News: See All Mentions of Your Research in One View

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