PlumX Benchmarks: How Do You Compare?

At Plum Analytics we often talk about telling the story of research. We mean many things by that. One of the things we mean is to use modern metrics to understand how your institution compares to its peers and leaders in any research field. 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

Video: Mount Sinai Levy Library and PlumX

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

Uncovering the Local Story with PlumX Benchmarks

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