We are happy to tell you that we’ve been working with Utah State University (USU) and they have joined the growing list of PlumX customers. The librarians at the university set up a pilot program of researchers to experiment with different types of metrics to see the how they portray different individuals and their affiliated groups. Read More
For our customers, we have mechanisms in place for bulk importing data from existing systems to fuel: What is the hierarchy of data that you are interested in? What researchers are affiliated with the different groups? What artifacts are associated with particular researchers or groups? Read More
We’re excited to announce that we now include patents as a type of research output that is tracked by PlumX. When setting up a profile for a researcher, lab, or other group that you are interested in tracking, we now take a USPTO patent id as a contribution you can track. Read More
Today I saw a great infographic about Twitter and Science publications. You can read about the background of it here. In addition to the compelling graphic itself, something that I found interesting, was that the creator of the infographic only shared it directly on twitter to begin with. 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
We are amazed at how quickly altmetrics has turned from a “fringe” topic to one that is on everyone’s mind. This is evidenced by how many people are writing and talking about it just in the past month alone. We want to share some of the most interesting of these articles so you can keep up with this emerging area. Read More
In our latest release of PlumX, we have made improvements to the display metrics of the impact of artifacts, researchers and groups they are affiliated with. Highlights include: metrics previews when searching for a researcher, a significant redesign to make the metrics on the data table more digestible, Read More
From the beginning of our company’s history, we’ve focused on not just the data, but being able to visualize and quickly discover the stories that are contained in it. Per researcher, one question that often gets asked is. “What has that researcher done that has gotten the most engagement?” Our sunburst visualization can be sorted by impact to weight the artifacts (articles, Read More
We decided to create a blog to keep everyone up to date about what is happening at Plum Analytics. We just had our one year anniversary and are proud to have launched our PlumX product. If you haven’t seen the 1 minute product screencast, Read More
