Dog Days of Summer have you on vacation? Not so much in altmetrics and definitely not here at Plum Analytics. Our development team has been very busy in the last four months. We’ve announced a lot of PlumX product news. Here’s a quick round up of our important product developments: Clinical Citations (May 12, Read More
On June 23rd we announced that we were adding altmetrics via the PlumTM Print to EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). I am pleased to say that this is complete and the Plum Print is now visible in the result list and on the detail page. Read More
Two core elements of PlumX have a new look and feel: our profile editing pages and our altmetrics analytics reports. Our mission is to support anyone who funds, performs, supports, or publishes research in tracking and understanding its impact, attention and reach. 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
If you look only at public comments on Facebook for a piece of research, you’re cheating yourself. The real news is in the total volume of all Facebook interactions. We’re not talking about a whisper campaign – it’s simply this: If you’re not seeing the full altmetrics picture, 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
In May we used PlumX to analyze the altmetrics of the Sci-Hub Downloads data released by Science Magazine. We wrote a blog post about our findings and posted the PlumX altmetrics dataset that we used for our analysis on Figshare. Read More
From timeliness to self-citations, much has been written about why citation metrics are flawed — but that is not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about moving the conversation about citations forward to include clinical impact. Clinical research does not get cited as much as basic science. Read More
Finding new funding for research is critical for researchers and those who support them in order for their research to continue. Yet, they are often frustrated with the tools available to help them. The key is striking the right balance between casting a wide net and providing relevant opportunities that are suitable based on a researcher’s history and current research focus. Read More
