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
Against the Grain is a publication “linking publishers, vendors & librarians.” In a recent issue they published an article titled, “Altmetrics: Documenting the Story of Research” by: Lauren B. Collister, 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 are thrilled to release the first version of our new analytics reporting feature, PlumX Analytics. From the beginning, our vision was to give people who perform, support and fund research easier ways to answer their questions and tell the stories about the research. Read More
As a self-professed data junkie, I always thoroughly enjoy the yearly Internet Trends presentation from Mary Meeker from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. One slide that jumped out talks about the very small percentage of data that is “tagged” and the even smaller amount of data that is “analyzed” in the Digital Universe. Read More
A few weeks ago, we announced new features on how we group metrics by category, and allow for quickly seeing what sort of engagement is happening around each article, presentation, dataset, video, etc. We are pleased to announce the companion feature to this, Read More