For Open Access Week, Plum Analytics is hosting a webinar titled “The Feedback Between Open Access & Altmetrics.” Action, information, reaction, that is the definition of a feedback loop. A feedback loop is an effective tool for changing behavior. Read More

In honor of the Frankfurt Book Fair this week we want to review the PlumX^TM widgets. The Plum^TM Print is an article-level widget that visually changes based upon the metrics in each of the five categories of metrics. Read More

With PlumX^TM you can track metrics at multiple levels or group. For example, an academic institution might track metrics at: Researcher Lab Department Institution Discipline Subject These groups are user-definable; each PlumX customer establishes their unique way to analyze research impact. Read More

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. Read More

Pacifica Graduate Institute is an accredited graduate school located in Santa Barbara, CA offering masters and doctoral degree programs framed in the traditions in Depth Psychology. Half of the faculty is actively involved with research, while the other half are scholar practitioners with a focus on their practices. Read More

Plum Analytics^TM considers books an important research output or artifact, as demonstrated by our use of OCLC WorldCat metrics (see this blog for more information). We are now expanding our support of books with metrics from Goodreads. Read More

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is a non-profit medical research institute located in La Jolla California and Florida. Sanford-Burnham is one of the seven National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated basic research cancer centers in the United States. Sanford-Burnham has over 80 full-time faculty all with their own labs and over 900 scientific staff members working on research. Read More

Taylor & Francis recently published their annual Open Access Survey. This is a survey they conducted of the authors they published during 2012. What interested us about the survey were the responses concerning usage statistics. Sixty percent of the respondents said that usage and download statistics will become important for assessing the value of research over the next ten years. Read More

One of the things we looked forward to when considering our EBSCO acquisition was more collaboration between our companies. So, it is exciting to announce that PlumX^TM now includes usage metrics for articles and books from EBSCO Databases, Read More