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
We’re excited to announce that PlumX is Shibboleth enabled. Institutions and large enterprises can now authenticate PlumX in the way they are used to for subscription services. In addition the Shibboleth-enabled authorization also provides the identification process necessary to safeguard researchers’ profiles. Read More
In my 11th grade biology class, with my lab partner, we dissected a fetal pig. I remember the aha moment when I realized what the diaphragm was. I had taken clarinet lessons for many years, and my teacher would always tell me to “breathe more with your belly, 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
At ALA Midwinter, Mike Buschman did a session called “Introducing PlumX”. We were lucky enough to be able to record that session. If you’d like to see this 45-minute session starring Mike you can see it here. Read More
If you are going to ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia please stop by booth #1871 to say hi to us and see a demo of PlumX. Here are some other places you can catch us besides the exhibit hall: ACRL STS Hot Topics Discussion Group What: Come and join the STS Hot Topics Discussion Group as we address the issue of Altmetrics! Read More
Here at PlumTM Analytics we were happy to learn that Library Journal selected PlumX as the Most Ambitious Database of 2013 in their annual roundup of award-winning databases. Library Journal compared the winners to movie studios with Plum Analytics equated to a producer of an Indie film, Read More
Since we started PlumX we understood that it was important to work with institutional and discipline-specific repositories, both as a source of research output as well as a target for providing value via PlumX metrics. PlumX imports records seamlessly from EPrints, Read More
At PlumTM Analytics, we often blog about new features and other new developments for PlumX, the product that processes big data to bring you information about research impact. Here are some of our previous blog posts you may have missed about important features and functions. Read More
On Monday, October 14, I was happy to be part of a panel at the World Social Science Forum in Montreal. The panel was put together and moderated by Gregg Gordon from SSRN, and my presentation was entitled, “Altmetrics in Practice.” The audience was especially interested in measuring research output beyond articles—and books in particular. Read More