The Altmetric Explorer
Get up and running with journal and article reports in minutes.

The Altmetric Explorer is a powerful, intuitive tool for measuring the attention that scholarly articles receive online

See plans & pricing

Each week Altmetric captures hundreds of thousands of tweets, blog posts, news stories and other pieces of content that mention scholarly articles.

The Explorer can browse, search and filter this data. Use it to deliver insights, track conversations and measure levels of attention over time or compared to your competitors.

Articles

All of the conversation in one place

Altmetric collects the relevant discussions around each article from Twitter, Facebook, science blogs, mainstream news outlets and many more sources - then makes it all available to you in one place.

Scores for quick analysis and comparison

Each article is given a score that measures the quantity & quality of attention it has received. The score donut visualization tells you what kind of attention at a glance. (Find out more about Altmetric's scoring system here)

Demographics

See the demographics for the social network users mentioning each paper. Was an article unsually popular in Spain? Amongst doctors? Science communicators? The Explorer can tell you.

Powerful search & filtering

Browse all articles in the database, or filter by journal, publisher or time last mentioned.

Interested in specific papers? Enter DOIs, PubMed or arXiv IDs to track them.

Search for articles with your keywords in their title or author lists.

 
"Altmetric Explorer has the potential to change the way we understand the impact that research has within academia and more importantly the wider impact that it has in society."
Ian Mulvany
Head of Technology, eLife
"The Altmetric Explorer is a fantastic way to measure how successful our social media efforts have been."
Stuart Cantrill
Chief Editor, Nature Chemistry
"An exciting, powerful and useful tool."
Rebecca Fairbairn
BioMed Central

Ready to get started?

Get instant access - see plans & pricing now

Have any questions? Email sales@altmetric.com and we'll be happy to help.

Reporting & Analysis

Create reports

Easily create new reports and call up old ones with a click.

Export to Excel

Article and journal data can be exported to Excel.

Email alerts

Want regular updates or notifications when certain articles are mentioned? Create a report and then enable email alerting, included as standard in all plans.

 

Journals & Publishers

Group scores and article counts

See aggregate scores or article counts for specific journals, publishers or DOI prefixes.

Timelines

Quickly see when the most popular articles were published and when your social media strategy was most successful.

Journal rankings

See which journals within a portfolio get the most attention of different kinds. Compare your journals with their competitors.

Feature checklist

  • Alt-metrics at your fingertips
    We're the largest publisher agnostic source of alt-metrics data for scholarly articles, holding data on some 2.6 million unique papers - and we're still growing.
  • The Altmetric score & donut visualization
    The Altmetric score and donut give users a quick way to assess how much attention large sets of scholarly articles have received online. Tell at a glance which articles have been written about on science blogs, which were popular and which slipped by relatively unnoticed.
  • View activity around specific articles
    If you're interested in tracking specific articles just upload their DOIs, PubMed IDs or arXiv IDs to the Explorer and we'll search for them directly.
  • Search
    Search using boolean queries over titles in the Altmetric database.
  • Lightning fast
    Feel free to experiment with queries - we've optimized the Explorer so that even the most complex set of filters returns results in seconds.
  • Export reports
    Happier working in Excel? You can export the data you find with the Explorer at any time.
  • Email alerts
    Set up a filter and then save it as a report to be emailed to you on a daily or weekly basis. Set up activity reports for articles from your lab, institution or competitors, or in the subject areas that interest you.
  • Filter by publisher, journal(s), NLM journal categories
    Restrict results to articles published in a particular set of journals or publisher. Alternatively use high level subject categories like neuroscience or cardiology to filter by topic.
  • Filter by attention type
    See only papers that have been mentioned in the mainstream media, or that have Facebook wall posts - if we collect it you can filter by it.
  • Journal rankings
    Want to see where papers about autism get the most attention? Which medical journal gets the most links from the mainstream media? The journals tab groups article attention data by journal and helps to deliver the answers you need.

Some of the world's leading publishers, editors, librarians and funders use the Explorer every day - join them!

Get instant access - see plans & pricing now

Have any questions? Email sales@altmetric.com and we'll be happy to help.