All Stack Exchange Q&A Sites Now Covered in PlumX Metrics

PlumX Metrics now finds references to your academic content in all topic-based forums from the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. Stack Exchange was created in 2008, beginning as Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for software development questions. It rapidly became an important online reference for programmers world-wide: a 2016 survey of professional software developers found that 74% of respondents visit Stack Overflow weekly. Read More

Spotlight on Captures: Early indicators of citation counts

More and more, policymakers are expecting scientists to demonstrate the value of their research to society. While peer review and bibliometrics have become accepted methods for assessing the impact research has on other research, there is currently no established framework that addresses the impact of research on the broader society. Read More

Wikipedia Influences Language in Science Publications

Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website globally.[1] The online encyclopedia contains about 0.5 – 1.0 million scientific articles, but scientists still rarely cite them as a source of knowledge in their papers. However, this does not mean that they are not reading Wikipedia articles. Read More

SciELO and PlumX: More Open Access, More Insight

Both researchers and academic publishers in developing countries face an uphill battle when they seek to make an impact in their fields on the global stage. Researchers need both access to academic content to stay abreast of research developments, and a forum to publish results of their research that might get the attention the research deserves. Read More

PlumX and Policy Document Citations

Finding references to research in policy documents is important because there are new demands on researchers and those who support them to demonstrate public engagement with their research, its impact on government policy and cultural life, and societal impact in general. Read More

Categorizing Policy Document Citations

At Plum Analytics, we’ve been working hard to incorporate policy document citations into PlumX. The term “policy documents” can be a nebulous way of describing documents resulting from the research of non-profits, governmental organizations and think-tanks. They can take the form of white papers, Read More