This is the second part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In the first, we explored the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when we aggregated them.Read More
Recently we announced a partnership with ACI Information Group to bring more blog post mentions to PlumX. ACI individually curates blogs through researchers with expertise in each blog’s topic or field of study in a variety of academic and research disciplines. Read More
This guest blog is written by Andy Herzog, Department Head of Faculty Services and Online Engagement for the University of Texas Arlington Libraries. He is heading up a program to help support faculty members through the process of promotion and tenure.Read More
We recently created an infographic to describe the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In that process we took a look at how many books and book chapters PlumX tracks. As you can see above, PlumX tracks 4.1 million books and book chapters. Read More
This is the first part of a two-part blog post about PlumX and Wikipedia mentions. In this first one, we explore the meaning and possible interpretations of Wikipedia mentions of scholarly output, both on an individual piece of research and when aggregated.Read More
Our customer, the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Levy Library, is working with their departments to drive deeper into their university faculty structures to educate researchers and recruit them to understanding and embracing altmetrics. Mount Sinai’s Levy Library is featuring Article Spotlights each month using PlumX. Read More
As fall arrives, I’m looking back at some of the conferences and meetings that we attended over the summer. The VIVO annual conference was in Denver in August, and for us, it was both successful and enlightening. The conference centered on people interesting in or already using VIVO and offered a collaborative atmosphere to talk about adopting and implementing VIVO and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing. 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