Mike Buschman, Co-Founder and Chief Product Office of Plum Analytics was recently interviewed for The Charleston Advisor. Some highlights from the interview include: “It is true that traditionally the term “altmetrics” refers to Social Media… As such, Read More
We just launched a new way for users to see the tweets for their research output, also known as artifacts. This new view is accessible directly from a PlumXTM artifact page and shows all tweets that are publicly accessible in reverse chronological order. Read More
PlumX now supports IP authentication to enable customers to have more granular control over access to their dashboards and data. IP authentication is one of the most popular methods for controlling access to enterprise applications, especially for customers with a large number of potential endusers that might want or need access without full log-in credentials. Read More
On July 31, Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics President and co-founder, presented an hour-long webinar about altmetrics in general and PlumX, our research impact metrics dashboard, in particular. You can watch that replay on YouTube here. Read More
Plum AnalyticsTM considers books an important research output or artifact, as demonstrated by our use of OCLC WorldCat metrics (see this blog for more information). We are now expanding our support of books with metrics from Goodreads. Read More
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is a non-profit medical research institute located in La Jolla California and Florida. Sanford-Burnham is one of the seven National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated basic research cancer centers in the United States. Sanford-Burnham has over 80 full-time faculty all with their own labs and over 900 scientific staff members working on research. Read More
Taylor & Francis recently published their annual Open Access Survey. This is a survey they conducted of the authors they published during 2012. What interested us about the survey were the responses concerning usage statistics. Sixty percent of the respondents said that usage and download statistics will become important for assessing the value of research over the next ten years. Read More
One of the things we looked forward to when considering our EBSCO acquisition was more collaboration between our companies. So, it is exciting to announce that PlumXTM now includes usage metrics for articles and books from EBSCO Databases, Read More
Autism Speaks is set to use PlumXTM to track the research impact of the research they fund. Autism Speaks is the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, Read More
The key to quickly navigating complex data sets is to turn them into elegant, simple visualizations that do the hard work for you. We think our new PlumTM Print does exactly that. With one glance, it’s easy way to see the relative impact of each of the five categories of metrics – Read More