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Altmetrics

Tracking Tools

Altmetric logo

Altmetric donutAltmetric is a company that provides tools that allow researchers to monitor and measure conversations about their publications and those of their peers. The distinctive Altmetric "donut" combines a numerical attention score with a ring of colors that represent the types of attention received. Look for Altmetric scores on publishers' sites, or install the free Altmetric Bookmarklet, a browser extension that retrieves attention scores with a single click.


Impactstory logo

Impactstory is a tool that allows you to promote, manage, and share your research and scholarship. Add materials to your profile using your ORCID researcher ID, Google Scholar Profile, DOIs, and PubMed IDs. Impactstory gathers altmetrics for these materials from many sources. You can receive a weekly email report of "new research impacts" (example here) and use your Impactstory profile as an alternative to a static online CV (example profile here). Sign up with your Twitter account or ORCID researcher ID.


PlumX logo

Plum Analytics assess more than 20 different types of research artifacts, including journal articles, books, videos, presentations, conference proceedings, datasets, source code, cases, and more, by analyzing five categories of metrics.

Usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations.

PlumX metrics are integrated into Elsevier products like Scopus.


PLOS logo

Public Library of Science (PLOS) Article-Level Metrics track the influence of individual articles published on its platform, from times downloaded to mentions in social media and blogs, as well as internal article metrics, including comments, notes, and ratings.