Scopus is an abstract and citation database of academic journals in various subject fields such as life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It is launched in 2004 by Elsevier. Scopus database is very popular and widely used by researchers, students, and professionals in various fields of study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus For more info about see Scopus blog: https://blog.scopus.com/ Scopus research… Read More »
It is good to know that: Social media data aggregators differ in terms of metrics they offer, data sources they cover, and research products they track, and also the methods they calculate metrics. In order to know which aggregator to use, first think in which specific data source (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.) you are interested… Read More »
CrossRef Event Data (ED) is a social media data aggregator started in April 2017 (beta version). ED collects raw social media data from a selection of sources such as Wikipedia, Twitter, Reddit, Stack Exchange Network, etc. for CrossRef registered contents. It doesn’t provide social media metrics but a stream of events (raw data) that occurred for… Read More »
Impact Story is an open-source tool founded in 2011 by Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar. It provides social media metrics for diverse research outputs (such as articles, blog posts, datasets, and software) from Altmetric.com, Twitter, Mendeley, CrossRef, BASE, ORCID, etc. Impact Story offers a free online profile for researchers. It provides an overview of social… Read More »
Lagotto is a social media metrics data aggregator. It is an Open Source application started in 2009 by Public Library of Science (PLOS). Lagotto provides social media metrics both for PloS articles (known as PLOS ALM) and also for articles from any other publishers. It retrieves data from a wide set of sources. The metrics are… Read More »
Plum Analytics founded in 2012, acquired by Ebsco in 2014 and by Elsevier in 2017. It provides metrics for different research outputs (articles, blog posts, books, source codes, theses/dissertations, videos). The metrics are grouped in 5 categories of usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations. In order to track PlumX metrics of your research output follow… Read More »
Go to this page. Insert identifier (DOI, PubMed ID, Scopus ID, etc.) of research output. Click Get the code button. Copy and paste the code on your web page where you want the widget to appear. for more info, visit: https://plu.mx/developers/widgets/ PlumX widget for repositories/research portal: Plum Analytics offers PlumX metrics and widget free of… Read More »
Definition: Social media metrics (popularly known as altmetrics) refers to the metrics (number of tweets, Facebook counts, Wikipedia mentions, blog posts, news mentions, and saves/readers in online reference management tools) for research products driven from social media platforms. History: The idea for measuring social media metrics of research outputs first introduced by Jason Priem in… Read More »
For individual academic institutions Altmetric Donut Badge are free to display on content published by their institutes (see here an introductory video). Follow these steps: Inform Altmetric.com the domain of your institutional repository/ research portal. For this you need to send an email to: support@altmetric.com Choose the style of badge you’d like to be shown… Read More »
Altmetric.com is a Digital Science company founded in 2011. A range of different sources including mentions of research outputs in policy documents, blogs, mainstream media, online reference managers, and social media tools are tracked by Altmetric.com based on URLs or unique identifiers of research outputs. Metrics of research outputs displayed via a detailed page and Altmetric… Read More »