More and more, policymakers are expecting scientists to demonstrate the value of their research to society. While peer review and bibliometrics have become accepted methods for assessing the impact research has on other research, there is currently no established framework that addresses the impact of research on the broader society. Read More

In order to tame the big data of all the possible online interactions with all the different types of research output, PlumX categorizes them into 5 categories. Each category tells a different story of research. Read More

This is the first part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In this first one, we explore the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when aggregated. 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

Blogs are an important part of today’s scholarly communication ecosystem. Researchers often write about their own or others’ research, share data and carry on conversations that push their field forward. This is why we’ve been working hard to expand our coverage of blog mentions in PlumX. Read More

When we started working with all of the metrics that we could gather from the data exhaust created when people interacted with research we quickly realized three things: Not all metrics are created equal, a download is not the same as a tweet. Read More