Altmetrics Tools
More and more library resources are tracking use statistics. Check the websites or databases where your research output appears to track metrics like views and downloads.
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E.g. Web of Science provides usage counts (abstract views) for articles over the last 180 days and over the last 3 years:
Altmetric Aggregators
A number of advanced altmetrics tools are available for researchers (with both free and subscription-based options):
Altmetric Explorer
Altmetric Explorer helps you track the attention your work receives from various non-academic sources (from social and traditional media to policy documents to blogs).
Users can review attention at the author-, departmental-, or institutional-level and use this data for reporting, goal setting, and benchmarking activities.
Impact Story
Impact Story is a free service that tracks the buzz surrounding your research output on Twitter, blogs, and news outlets and generates a wide variety of altmetrics and statistics based on this data. Accounts can be synchronized with ORCiD to update automatically when new content is published.
A Twitter account is all that is required to get started.
Plum Analytics
Plum Analytics is an altmetrics tracker currently integrated into the library's CINAHL database.
- CINAHL This link opens in a new window Coverage: 1981- Present Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.
- When searching CINAHL, look for the Plum Metrics symbol
beneath each result. - Hover over the symbol to review metrics like views, saves, and social media mentions:
beneath each result.
