Research Altmetrics to Enhance Communication and Discovery in China’s Tech and Science Communities We are now working with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) to build the ISTIC-EBSCO Joint Laboratory for Big Data Research and Discovery promoting the academic research of big data in China. Read More
We are always expanding our sources and the latest is DataCite. Founded on the principle that research datasets need persistent identifiers, DataCite expanded to assign DOIs to many types of non-traditional research outputs. Plum Analytics is now tracking these with DOIs from DataCite. Read More
Usage data statistics are a valuable metric to researchers, second only to citations. Unlike other altmetrics providers, Plum Analytics has long included usage statistics as an important category of altmetrics. Now, research usage data for one of the largest Chinese e-journals content collections is available through the PlumX altmetrics suite. Read More
This post originally appeared on the 2:AM Conference blog as a guest blog from Andrea Michalek, the Co-Founder and President of Plum Analytics. Andrea shares her thoughts about the current state of altmetrics and opportunities for the future.Read More
Robin Champieux, the Scholarly Communications Librarian at OHSU, gave an excellent presentation at the ER&L Conference in Austin, TX a couple weeks ago. We’ve been getting a lot of requests for Robin’s presentation, and the slides are now available here. Read More
Recently I was invited to speak at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool’s TEC Conference. “TEC” stands for “Technology. Entrepreneurship. Creativity.” My presentation, entitled “Librarian Entrepreneur—Oxymoron?” was a fun opportunity not only to discuss my experience co-founding Plum Analytics, but also to look back further to my start at the University of Washington iSchool and subsequent projects and products along the way. Read More
The term altmetrics means different things to different people. At Plum Analytics it means any metrics about any type of research output. It is common knowledge that the ubiquitous use of the Internet has made sharing everything, including research, simple. With all of the different ways to share output come different ways to understand the impact and stories of research. Read More
PlumX tracks 5 categories of metrics: usage, mentions, social media, citations, and captures. Metrics that we categorize as captures are when an individual is interacting with research online and “captures” it for later. Examples of capture metrics that are already a part of PlumX are: Bookmarking the page on Delicious Adding it to Elsevier’s Mendeley as a reader Favoriting a slide presentation on Slideshare Favoriting a video on YouTube Subscribing to a channel on Vimeo or YouTube Followers, Read More
We recently updated the types of artifacts that we support to better reflect the diversity of research documents that our customers want to track. Giving customers flexibility in how they manage their research output collection is a hallmark of PlumX, and is critical to being able to do an accurate assessment. Read More
Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), recently reviewed PlumX for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). In this review, Robin does an excellent job of describing PlumX and what it does. Read More